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

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

On 1/2/11 1:01 PM, Linuxer Wang wrote:
> 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 
> <http://www.eos.ubc.ca/%7Erich/private/extblueocean.gif> or 
> http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/private/exmiller.gif 
> <http://www.eos.ubc.ca/%7Erich/private/exmiller.gif> ?
>
> Thanks a lot.

Can you be more specific about what you need help with?  Is it drawing 
the map itself, or drawing the lines on the map?  examples/nytolondon.py 
shows how to draw great circles, which is similar to the 
extblueocean.gif example.


If you are asking how to draw that black and white border around the 
map, that is not supported.  However, it is easy to draw labelled 
meridians and parallels (with the drawparallels and drawmeridians class 
methods).  Docs are at 
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/api/index.html, and 
there are lots of examples in the 'examples' directory of the source 
distribution.

HTH,

-Jeff