Bruce Ford wrote: > All, > > It took a fair bit of trial and error to coax a KML-friendly image out > of matplotlib and to understand what was and was not necessary. Below > is a demo script demonstrating how to accomplish a KML-friendly image > with and without a basemap. I hope this will help someone out. > > What do I mean by a KML-friendly image? In KML you can overlay a > complicated geo-referenced image but it is geo-referenced based on the > boundaries of the image. So, for the image to be correctly displayed > in a KML document, the edges of the image have to be relatable to a > latitude or longitude. Most of the time this will mean you are using > Basemap and you'll need an image that encompasses only the bounding > box and nothing outside...no whitespace, extra room for titling, etc. > > The below examples accomplish this. Turns out, the two key elements are > > (1) ax = pyplot.axes((0,0,1,1)) > > and if you are using Basemap: > > (2) a kwarg in Basemap: fix_aspect=False > > Thanks! > > Bruce >
Bruce: That's great, I've always wondered how to do that. However your example didn't make it to the list, perhaps you forgot to attach it? -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : jeffrey.s.whita...@noaa.gov 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-113 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
