Re: [Matplotlib-users] plot Africa only

[Tommy C. <tom...@gm...>]

Felipe, thanks for the links! I do realize it would be impossible to
leave out non-African mainland when using bluemarble(). I could color
Europe, Madagascar, Middle East white on a map with filled continents,
but I would have to be accurate at the Israel/Egypt, Djibouti/Yemen
and Spain/Morocco borders. Not the solution I was looking to
implement. Using Cartopy and a shapefile of Africa seems to be a very
good solution. I'll look into this. Thanks!

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes
<oc...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Tommy, there is not easy way to do it with matplolib+basemap.  Also, you
> will find it extra hard because the image you are plotting (blue marble)  is
> raster that is cut in lon, lat bounding box.  Therefore, unless you create a
> mask around what to plot and what not to plot, it will show everything that
> is inside that box.
>
> One alternative is cartopy.  With cartopy you have easy access to Natural
> Earth features.  That way you can find the proper feature, that represents
> just the African continent, and plot it:
>
> http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/examples/hurricane_katrina.html
>
> https://ocefpaf.github.io/python4oceanographers/blog/2013/09/30/natural_earth/
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Filipe
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Tommy Carstensen
> <tom...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know, whether a continent can be left out when plotting
>> with matplotlib basemap? For example I wish to hide Europe (and
>> Madagascar) on this plot:
>>
>> http://www.tommycarstensen.com/python3_matplotlib_basemap_merc_bluemarbleTrue_scaledTrue_1000GTrue_hresolution.jpg
>
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