Eric Firing wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> When putting a legend on a basemap plot, I find that the legend command
> picks up the coastline line collection and gives it an uninformative
> label. I suspect this is rarely what one wants. Two suggestions:
>
> 1) In drawcoastlines, use "coastlines.set_label('_nolabel_') to suppress
> inclusion in the legend, and similarly for drawcountries, etc.
>
Eric:
Done for coastlines, rivers, countries and states.
> 2) Make drawcoastlines return the line collection that it creates.
> Similarly, drawcountries could return the line collection,
> fillcoastlines could return the list of patches, etc.
All done.
> Drawparallels and
> drawmeridians are a little more complicated because they make the labels
> as well as the lines, so I am not sure what to do with them.
>
drawmeridians and drawmeridians now return dictionaries, with the Line2D
and Text instances associated with each latitude or longitude.
> Granted, one can grab the reference to the line collection from the end
> of ax.collections, but it seems cheap, reasonable, and more convenient
> to simply have it returned by the command that makes it.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
Thanks for the suggestion.
-Jeff
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