Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap - UTM Support

[Nick E. <nic...@gm...>]

Thanks Don. The consensus seems to be that I need to move to Cartopy, which
apparently supersedes Basemap.

(Just realized the helpful responses I received weren't cc'd to the list,
so responding here for the record).

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM Don Morton <don...@bo...>
wrote:

> 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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