On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: > > Oh sure, it's simple! > > http://www.google.com/patents?id=J4YOAAAAEBAJ&dq=6618053
Hi Jeff, thanks for your reply. I was hoping to get response if there are ideas how this unfortunate performance can be avoided. If there are some thoughts or if it's closed case. About GIS web-services, I thought maybe extending Basemap and providing interface to some of available online mapping services. For example arcgis is just one of them, and allows using their online map service to arbitrary application, while exposing REST (http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/rest/apiref/index.html?mapserver.html) and SOAP service with full WSDL description (http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/services/World_Imagery/MapServer?wsdl) and documentation. REST requests cover all of their services while SOAP is limited and a bit harder to code in this example. Services offer much more than it's needed to be paired in Basemap, as can be seen from documentation, with any imaginable projection and what not. As an example of using the service here is image: http://i.imgur.com/RpUFv.png and here is it's simple source code that executes unnoticeable in second: ======================================== import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import urllib2 lon1 = -10; lon2 = 30; lat1 = 30; lat2 = 60 basemap_url = "http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Physical_Map/MapServer/export?bbox=%d,%d,%d,%d&bboxSR=4326&size=1024,768&dpi=128&format=png32&f=image"; % (lon1, lat1, lon2, lat2) overlay_url = "https://ogcie.iblsoft.com/sigwx?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=ASXX&WIDTH=1024&HEIGHT=768&CRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=%d,%d,%d,%d&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&STYLES=&FORMAT=image/png"; % (lon1, lat1, lon2, lat2) plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6), dpi=128, facecolor='w') plt.imshow(plt.imread(urllib2.urlopen(basemap_url))) plt.imshow(plt.imread(urllib2.urlopen(overlay_url))) plt.gca().axison = False plt.savefig("scene.png", dpi=128, transparent=True) ======================================== As both "basemap map" and overlay image use same CRS, this seems doable with just MPL. Having such service paired in Basemap as a feature looks very promising to me. I don't know much about MPL and Basemap design, as if all above talk is easy and then acceptable for implementation, but that's roughly what I had in mind for web-services - as additional feature for replacing bloated background maps provided, which does not have such quality to justify low performance. Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
