I think this will only work with some projections but not all. I looked at
the code for tissot. It's pretty hairy but it almost does what I want. (It
draws projected circles
instead of projected  rectangles.


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Jeff Whitaker <jsw...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Yeates, Mathew C (388D) wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > What is the simplest way to fill  in a 1 degree by 1 degree rectangle
> > on a basemap projection?
> >
> >
> >
> > Mathew
> >
>
> Mathew:  Try this (for a 10x10 rectangle, but you get the idea)
>
> from matplotlib.patches import Polygon
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
> map = Basemap(projection='moll',lon_0=0)
> x1,y1 = map(-10,-10)
> x2,y2 = map(-10,10)
> x3,y3 = map(10,10)
> x4,y4 = map(10,-10)
> p = Polygon([(x1,y1),(x2,y2),(x3,y3),(x4,y4)],\
>    facecolor='red',edgecolor='blue',linewidth=2)
> plt.gca().add_patch(p)
> map.drawcoastlines()
> map.drawmapboundary()
> plt.show()
>
> -Jeff
> >
>
>
>
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