Re: [matplotlib-devel] image module questions

[John N S G. <jn...@eu...>]

 

> Any other thoughts welcome...

 
Not really related to images but... 

I've been thinking a bit about mapplotlib (no, that is not a typo).

Quite often I find myself with numbers for different parts of the world
that I want to map, shading regions different colours according to the
numbers.

In fact, one of my early experiments with python and wxPython was to
produce such a beast, but I'm not terribly happy with what I produced.

matplotlib has lots of the goodies that mapplotlib would require:  it
has axes you can zoom and scroll, is great a drawing coloured polygons
and can do legends.

The problem I've tended to run into with mapping projects has been
getting shape files that aren't distributed under a restrictive licence.

Anyway, is there any interest out there in a mapplotlib?

John