Re: [matplotlib-devel] missing projections

2010-02-18 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Phillip M. Feldman wrote: > This sounds great. Thanks! > > So far I haven't figured out how to use it. I downloaded the > matplotlib SVN and installed it, but was not able to find > "nsper_demo.py". > > Phillip Phillip: Basemap is a separate toolkit, you won't get it from the matplotlib svn

Re: [matplotlib-devel] missing projections

2010-02-17 Thread Phillip M. Feldman
This sounds great. Thanks! So far I haven't figured out how to use it. I downloaded the matplotlib SVN and installed it, but was not able to find "nsper_demo.py". Phillip Jeff Whitaker wrote: > Phillip M. Feldman wrote: >> Jeff Whitaker wrote: >>> Phillip M. Feldman wrote: Andrew Straw w

Re: [matplotlib-devel] missing projections

2010-02-12 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Phillip M. Feldman wrote: > Jeff Whitaker wrote: >> Phillip M. Feldman wrote: >>> Andrew Straw wrote: Jeff Whitaker wrote: > Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote: > >> Basemap offers many projections, but is missing two of the most >> useful ones: >> >> - For satell

Re: [matplotlib-devel] missing projections

2010-01-25 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Phillip M. Feldman wrote: > Andrew Straw wrote: >> Jeff Whitaker wrote: >> >>> Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote: >>> Basemap offers many projections, but is missing two of the most useful ones: - For satellite applications, it would be helpful to have a "camera" projec

Re: [matplotlib-devel] missing projections

2010-01-24 Thread Phillip M. Feldman
Andrew Straw wrote: > Jeff Whitaker wrote: > >> Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote: >> >> >>> Basemap offers many projections, but is missing two of the most useful ones: >>> >>> - For satellite applications, it would be helpful to have a "camera" >>> projection, i.e., a projection that shows

Re: [matplotlib-devel] missing projections

2010-01-24 Thread Andrew Straw
Jeff Whitaker wrote: > Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote: > >> Basemap offers many projections, but is missing two of the most useful ones: >> >> - For satellite applications, it would be helpful to have a "camera" >> projection, i.e., a projection that shows the Earth as viewed from a >> specified p

Re: [matplotlib-devel] missing projections

2010-01-24 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote: > Basemap offers many projections, but is missing two of the most useful ones: > > - For satellite applications, it would be helpful to have a "camera" > projection, i.e., a projection that shows the Earth as viewed from a > specified point in space. This would be a g

Re: [matplotlib-devel] missing projections

2010-01-24 Thread Dr. Phillip M. Feldman
If and when you have time on your hands, a projection that is rarely used but quite interesting is Guyou's Doubly-Periodic Projection. (See the first and third figures in http://www.members.shaw.ca/quadibloc/maps/mcf0703.htm). This projection puts the worst distortion at four points in the ocean

[matplotlib-devel] missing projections

2010-01-24 Thread Dr. Phillip M. Feldman
Basemap offers many projections, but is missing two of the most useful ones: - For satellite applications, it would be helpful to have a "camera" projection, i.e., a projection that shows the Earth as viewed from a specified point in space. This would be a generalization of the current geostatio