Your solution is about as good as proxy artists in legends, which would be
the official method. (Google proxy artist matplotlib.)
It may be relevant that you can access the marker of the legend entries with
the _marker attribute of the handles. Search the mailing list archives for
this one.
Thanks for feedback Thomas and Sterling. Here is the ugly solution I
ended up with:
# plot a marker with a blank label
map.plot(x, y, 'o', markersize=markersize, markerfacecolor=color, label=)
# specify a coordinate outside the map region (Africa)
x,y = map(-60, -60)
# use a fixed
Is there a way to have all markers in the legend box have the same size?
www.tommycarstensen.com/python3_matplotlib_basemap_merc_bluemarbleTrue_scaledTrue_1000GTrue_hresolution.jpg
I came up with a solution by plotting a marker outside the latitude
and longitude range, but that's not a very good
