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

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

On 1/2/11 9:17 PM, Linuxer Wang wrote:
>
> Hi, Jeff
>
> Sorry for the confusion. Yes, I mean to draw the black/white border 
> (called fancy box in m_map). Drawing the maps is really easy to use, 
> thanks for your great Api. Is there plan to support the fancy border 
> feature in near future?

No, but patches are welcome.

-Jeff
>
> Thank you for replying.
>
>
> On 01/02/2011 06:09 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
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