Re: [Matplotlib-users] [ANN] basemap matplotlib toolkit 0.1.1

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

Ted Drain wrote:

>
> One thing I do need to be able to do is to create line plots that 
> "wrap around" a map.  We generate a lot of ground tracks that use a 
> Mercator projection covering the whole globe (x=-180->180, y=-90->90) 
> and if the line goes off one edge, we need to wrap it around to the 
> other edge instead of drawing a line segment all the way across the page.

Ted:  It just occured to me that if you plot the track as a scatterplot of points instead of a line then this is not a problem (i.e. you won't get that line segment running across the page)

-Jeff

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