thanks for this link Scott, I went into the refernce API directly 
without looking at this tutorial. Effectively, it works :-)

Scott Sinclair a écrit :
>>>> Lionel Roubeyrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/23/08 9:37 AM >>>
>>>>         
> I want to "convert" a filled contours map generated with 
> Basemap (example here : http://imagebin.ca/view/3nYnN3.html)
> to a polygon shapefile (vector). 
>
> After multiple tests, I can retrieve the polygons points coordinates via 
> matplotlib.Patch and save them in a shp file. Now I have troubles with 
> "real" coordinates and meta-datas, but nothing impossible :-)
>   
>
> Hi,
>
> If you're after a 'quick and dirty' solution.
>
> As I understand it a KML file can be used to specify the Latitude and 
> Longitude extent of a raster image (See 'Ground Overlays' at 
> http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html). If you can 
> accept some distortion of the text on your image (should be small with a 
> small region) and can work out the size of each pixel in degrees of lat and 
> lon, then all you need to do is write a simple text file to specify where 
> Google Earth should display your Basemap contour map.
>
> What you're doing does sound more elegant, but more complex.
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
>
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