Re: [Matplotlib-users] coordinate transformation: Basemap vs. Proj

2010-05-04 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On 5/4/10 4:25 PM, Timothy W. Hilton wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Thanks very much for your response. As you noted, I do not understand > the Basemap global sinusoidal coordinate system. Does this statement > not set up a global sinusoidal cartesian coordinate system centered at > (lon = 0.0, lat = 0.0)

Re: [Matplotlib-users] coordinate transformation: Basemap vs. Proj

2010-05-04 Thread Timothy W. Hilton
Hi Jeff, Thanks very much for your response. As you noted, I do not understand the Basemap global sinusoidal coordinate system. Does this statement not set up a global sinusoidal cartesian coordinate system centered at (lon = 0.0, lat = 0.0)? m = Basemap(projection='sinu', resolution=None, lon_

Re: [Matplotlib-users] coordinate transformation: Basemap vs. Proj

2010-05-04 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On 5/4/10 2:03 PM, Timothy W. Hilton wrote: > Hello matplotlib users, > > I am having trouble understanding the coordinate transformations in > Basemap and pyproj. I have gridded MODIS vegetation data, with upper > left corner and lower right corner given in projection coordinates > (meters). I w

[Matplotlib-users] coordinate transformation: Basemap vs. Proj

2010-05-04 Thread Timothy W. Hilton
Hello matplotlib users, I am having trouble understanding the coordinate transformations in Basemap and pyproj. I have gridded MODIS vegetation data, with upper left corner and lower right corner given in projection coordinates (meters). I want to contour the data with Basemap. The data are in