Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem on Basemap gshhs data and the associated is_land function

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2015/06/10 4:24 AM, Jiali Ma wrote:
> Thanks for reading my mail.
> In basemap toolkit of matplotlib, I found the  Coastline data used is from
> the GSHHS (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gshhs/gshhs.html).But I found
> it barely satisfying to use.

Are you specifying a sufficiently high resolution and using the 
drawrivers() method?

I think that trying to put your own data into a form to be used as a 
direct substitute for the built-in data would be very difficult, but you 
can always plot things directly on the map.

Eric