Hi Jeff (and others):
Sorry for the misunderstanding. After your second email the first makes
more sense.
However, I still cannot figure out how to extract the lat,lon pairs from the
LineCollection object. Searching on the web and based on Scott's suggestion
from another email, I see that in the past you could use a get_vertex()
option. However it appears to have been discontinued in mpl v 0.98.1.
I'm a relative newcomer to Python (less than 6 months) and even greener when
it comes to the inner workings of matplotlib. I'm sure I'm going to kick
myself when this is figured out...
-Patrick
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Patrick Marsh wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>>
>> I may not have been totally clear on what I'm trying to save (or I totally
>> misunderstood what you were trying to say - which is certainly possible).
>>
>> I'm not wanting to save the lat, lon pairs from the map projection. I'm
>> trying to save the lat, lon pairs of the contour. Using my original
>> example, if I'm plotting winds every 5 m/s, I'm wanting to pull off the lat,
>> lon pairs for the 5 m/s contours.
>>
>
> Patrick: I know - that's what I was trying to explain. You can get the
> x,y coordinates of the *contours* from the collections attribute of the
> ContourSet object returned by contour. Then you convert those x,y values
> back to lon,lat values using the Basemap instance.
>
> -Jeff
>
>>
>> I'll check out the website and see if I find anything there.
>>
>> -Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>> Patrick Marsh wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> First email here...
>>
>> I am plotting meteorological data using matplotlib and
>> basemap - and can do this just fine. However, I would
>> like to backout the coordinates being used for the
>> contours that are plotted.
>>
>> For example, if I were to contour windspeed every 5 m/s
>> and plot this (which I can do just fine), I would like to
>> save a copy of the lat, lon pairs as a text file.
>> However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do
>> this. I have a feeling it is pretty simple and I'm just
>> over looking something that can do this. Any help would
>> be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Patrick Marsh
>> Graduate Student
>> School of Meteorology
>> University of Oklahoma
>>
>>
>> Patrick: contour and contourf return a ContourSet object.
>> ContourSet.collections is a matplotlib LineCollection (for
>> contour) or a PolyCollection (for contourf). You can retrieve
>> the x,y (map projection) coordinates from these, and transfer
>> them back to lat/lon coordinates using the Basemap instance via
>>
>> lons,lats = map(x,y,inverse=True) # map is a Basemap instance.
>>
>> See
>>
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/doc/html/api/collections_api.html
>> for more info on matplotlib collection objects.
>>
>> HTH,
>> -Jeff
>>
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