[Matplotlib-users] basemap and imshow at high latitudes

[Hearne, M. <mh...@us...>]

I have an issue with basemap.imshow() at higher latitudes - namely the
image (high-res topography, in this case) becomes distorted with
respect to the coastlines the higher I go.    I assume it has to do
with the image pixels becoming more non-square the higher I go in
latitude.

I found this discussion:
http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/Basemap-and-imshow-td14115.html

where Jeff indicates that the user is using a non-rectangular map
projection.  I'm thinking that is perhaps my problem (I'm using
Transverse Mercator), but I'm not sure which projections Basemap
supports that *are* rectangular.

Or perhaps it's something else entirely.

Any hints?

Thanks,

Mike Hearne