Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to draw a specific country by basemap?

[Eric L. <eri...@gm...>]

On 01/27/2011 01:38 AM, Thomas Lecocq wrote:
> Hi,
>
> An easy way is to use the data from http://www.gadm.org/ and to plot
> it with m.readshapefile()
Thank you very much. The GDAM database is great.

BTW,  would you like to give some suggestions about how to color the
map, i.e., highlight a specific region? 

Thanks,
Eric

>
> HTH,
>
> Thom
>
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> Thomas Lecocq
> Geologist
> Ph.D.Student (Seismology)
> Royal Observatory of Belgium
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> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:03:27 +0800
> From: eri...@gm...
> To: mat...@li...
> Subject: [Matplotlib-users] How to draw a specific country by basemap?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using the Basemap module in matplotlib, it's great to draw a world
> map but for a specific country. Empirically, one can draw its own
> country by specifying the lats and longs like this example:
>
>     http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/users/geography.html
>
> And you can use the method: drawcontries() to draw the country
> boundries, but all the countries are in the same colour. Does anyone
> know how to highlight a specific country? Thanks in advance.
>
> Eric
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