Felipe, thanks for the links! I do realize it would be impossible to leave out non-African mainland when using bluemarble(). I could color Europe, Madagascar, Middle East white on a map with filled continents, but I would have to be accurate at the Israel/Egypt, Djibouti/Yemen and Spain/Morocco borders. Not the solution I was looking to implement. Using Cartopy and a shapefile of Africa seems to be a very good solution. I'll look into this. Thanks!
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes <ocef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tommy, there is not easy way to do it with matplolib+basemap. Also, you > will find it extra hard because the image you are plotting (blue marble) is > raster that is cut in lon, lat bounding box. Therefore, unless you create a > mask around what to plot and what not to plot, it will show everything that > is inside that box. > > One alternative is cartopy. With cartopy you have easy access to Natural > Earth features. That way you can find the proper feature, that represents > just the African continent, and plot it: > > http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/examples/hurricane_katrina.html > > https://ocefpaf.github.io/python4oceanographers/blog/2013/09/30/natural_earth/ > > Good luck! > > -Filipe > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Tommy Carstensen > <tommy.carsten...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Does anyone know, whether a continent can be left out when plotting >> with matplotlib basemap? For example I wish to hide Europe (and >> Madagascar) on this plot: >> >> http://www.tommycarstensen.com/python3_matplotlib_basemap_merc_bluemarbleTrue_scaledTrue_1000GTrue_hresolution.jpg > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
