[Matplotlib-users] Basemap with OO interface

[Remo G. <su...@li...>]

Dear matplotlib users,

I'm having trouble using Basemap through the object oriented interface
of Matplotlib. All the examples on the website use pyplot. But that does
not work if plots are generated in a parallel environment, i.e., in a
web application, since pyplot is obviously not thread safe.

Does anyone have a working example of Basemap without pyplot?
One of the issues I'm having is that

coastlines = map.drawcoastlines(linewidth=0.25)

does not show any coastlines. The underlying figure is created like this:

from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.figure import Figure, Axes

fig = Figure()
canvas = FigureCanvas(fig)
ax = Axes(fig, [0., 0., 1., 1.])
fig.add_axes(ax)

I feel a bit lost here. Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,
Remo