Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap - UTM Support

[Don M. <don...@bo...>]

Hi,

I only partially know what I'm talking about, but what the heck.  Have you
considered pyproj (which Basemap is apparently built on)?  Pyproj seems to
support any kind of projection you could even imagine, and a quick ggogle
suggests UTM would be included.

I had to learn all about this to some depth in order to teach it last
summer to a group in Vienna, and I have slides at

https://sites.google.com/a/borealscicomp.com/zamg-scientific-python-aug-sep-2014/home

and if you go to course slides, 06-PlottingMetData, starting at about Slide
60, I have some examples which lead up to Basemap.  My intent was to try to
get students to understand the how and why of plotting grids in
projections, then moving on to Basemap.  This way they might have a better
idea of how to deal with Basemap when things go wrong.  I think I just
confused them, though :)

At any rate, I haven't tried it, but I think it would be fairly simple to
do what you want, IF you understand some of the low-level aspects.  But,
maybe UTM is harder than I am imagining.

All the best,

Don Morton



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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Nick Eubank <nic...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Trying to move from ArcGIS into pure python GIS, but am a little surprised
> to find that UTM is not (directly) supported as a projection. Going through
> the machinations in the utmtest.py file
> <https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/blob/ee6a2f7f95b7a5eff022fcbb2800d7c50b8c97b5/examples/utmtest.py>
> every time I want to plot a map in UTM seems a little unwieldy.
>
> Please excuse my ignorance, but is there a reason it is so hard to support
> / any plans to integrate in the future / any other easier paths to plotting
> UTMs I don't know about?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
>
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