Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap - UTM Support

2015-05-14 Thread Benjamin Root
Nick, Just to be clear, cartopy is intended to supersede basemap, but there are still many advantages at the moment to basemap over cartopy. The codebase is much more mature, and it is much easier to install than cartopy. I still regularly use basemap because I don't need the more advanced feature

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap - UTM Support

2015-05-13 Thread Nick Eubank
Thanks Don. The consensus seems to be that I need to move to Cartopy, which apparently supersedes Basemap. (Just realized the helpful responses I received weren't cc'd to the list, so responding here for the record). On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:47 PM Don Morton wrote: > Hi, > > I only partially k

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap - UTM Support

2015-05-13 Thread Don Morton
Hi, I only partially know what I'm talking about, but what the heck. Have you considered pyproj (which Basemap is apparently built on)? Pyproj seems to support any kind of projection you could even imagine, and a quick ggogle suggests UTM would be included. I had to learn all about this to some