[Matplotlib-users] How to draw maps like in m_map tool?

[Zhong W. <zhwang@u.washington.edu>]

This may be a question for Jeffrey Whitaker but welcome anyone's help.

I used to use the m_map tool for matlab 
(http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html 
<http://www.eos.ubc.ca/%7Erich/map.html>). Does anybody know how to draw 
the same maps in matplotlib (BaseMap)? Specifically, how to draw axes in 
such figures: http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/private/extblueocean.gif or 
http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/private/exmiller.gif ?

Thanks a lot.