On 7/6/10 9:25 AM, Aman Thakral wrote:
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your help.
The shapefile works great, but I cannot see the labels. The "DESCRIP"
attribute in the shapefile has the labels, but I'm not sure how to
apply them to the map.
Thanks,
Aman
Aman: The shapefile support in Basemap is quite rudimentary (it's an
area that's waiting for a motivated volunteer to refactor and improve).
You should have access to all the data in the shapefile, but there is no
special API for plotting them. See the fillstates.py example for how to
access the dictionary of attributes associated with each "shape". One
you have the names, you'll have to plot the text using matplotlib's text
handling functions.
-Jeff
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Jeff Whitaker <jsw...@fastmail.fm
<mailto:jsw...@fastmail.fm>> wrote:
On 7/6/10 7:07 AM, Aman Thakral wrote:
Hi,
I have a cylindrical projection that I would like to add some
streets on. I only need major highways in southern Ontario,
Canada. Is this functionality included in the Basemap
package, or would I have to find a customized package/shape
file (Openstreet?) ?
Thanks,
Aman
Aman: Basemap does not include a streets database (only
coastlines, rivers, lakes and political boundaries). Shouldn't
be too hard to find a shapefile that fits your needs though.
-Jeff
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