Ah. It sounds as though one must consider the scale of the map, and then choose these offsets so that the text falls near but not too near the marker. It would be great if one could specify the text offsets in units of the font size rather than in units of map distance.
Thanks! Phillip Eric Firing wrote: > Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote: >> The online documentation at URL= >> http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps has an example that uses >> plt.text as follows: >> >> plt.text(xpt+50000,ypt+50000,name) >> >> Why is the offset 50000? > > The proj library used by Basemap transforms lon, lat to meters, so xpt > and ypt are in meters. Hence the offsets are 50 km. Now, what I > don't understand is why the San Diego offset on the map looks so much > larger than the Boulder offset, for example. > > Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
