Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Basemap] contour plot just inside country

2011-07-23 Thread Jeff Whitaker
+- Jeff Whitaker ---+ Jeff, I just had a thought Isn't the country borders drawn as Path or Polygon objects? I believe there are some matplotlib internal functions that can be given a list of points (such as those for a grid) and a path and

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Basemap] contour plot just inside country

2011-07-23 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
+- Jeff Whitaker ---+ Here's the basic idea: 1) read the germany.dat file, use it to create a _geoslib Poly instance, i.e. from mpl_toolkits.basemap import _geoslib b = np.asarray([lons,lats]).T # lons and lats are lists. germanypoly =

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Basemap] contour plot just inside country

2011-07-23 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On 7/23/11 9:32 AM, Yoshi Rokuko wrote: +- Jeff Whitaker ---+ Here's the basic idea: 1) read the germany.dat file, use it to create a _geoslib Poly instance, i.e. from mpl_toolkits.basemap import _geoslib b = np.asarray([lons,lats]).T # lons

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Basemap] contour plot just inside country

2011-07-15 Thread Jeff Whitaker
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Basemap] contour plot just inside country

2011-07-15 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
+- Jeff Whitaker ---+ 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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Basemap] contour plot just inside country

2011-07-15 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net wrote: +- Jeff Whitaker ---+ 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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Basemap] contour plot just inside country

2011-07-15 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On 7/15/11 12:55 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Yoshi Rokuko yo...@rokuko.net mailto:yo...@rokuko.net wrote: +- Jeff Whitaker ---+ On 7/14/11 2:25 PM, Yoshi Rokuko wrote: hi, is it possible to

[Matplotlib-users] [Basemap] contour plot just inside country

2011-07-14 Thread Yoshi Rokuko
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. to make it more clear what