On 7/14/11 2:25 PM, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
> hi, is it possible to restrict a contour plot to a
> country? if i grid my data to projection coordinates
> and then make a contour plot i can draw the country
> borders on top, but since the data plotted outside
> the country is a gridding artifact i would rather
> not plot it.

Yoshi:  There is no mechanism for doing this.  It is possible, but you 
would need a way to create a mask for all the grid points outside the 
country of interest, and then use this mask to create a masked array to 
pass to contourf.

-Jeff
>
> to make it more clear what i mean:
> http://rokuko.net/basicmap.png
>
> any ideas? can one make a single country transparent?
>
> best regards, yoshi
>
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