Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting maps with matplotlib-basemap very slow

[Christian A. <ia...@gm...>]

Hi,

Have you considered reading from a suitably low-resolution shapefile
instead? I suppose overlays or colors change per generation but not
the geographical area.

Cheers,

Christian


On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Sappy85 <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> I would like to draw very, very simple maps of only europe in matplotlib /
> basemap, which takes very much time (around 10 seconds!). This is just
> unreal!? Setting of resolution is only "l" (low).
> I need to plot hundreds of those maps every few hours. This would be
> impossible!!? :(
>
> Here is the very simple code:
>
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('Agg')
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
>
> m = Basemap(projection='stere',lon_0=5,lat_0=90.0,rsphere=6371200.,\
>
> llcrnrlon=-25.0,urcrnrlon=72.0,llcrnrlat=26.0,urcrnrlat=65.0,resolution='l')
>
> m.drawcoastlines(linewidth=0.2)
> m.drawcountries(linewidth=0.2)
> plt.savefig('/var/www/map.png')
>
>
> Hope you can help! :(
>
> Regards
>
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