[Matplotlib-users] Plotting basemap on top of other data

2011-12-09 Thread Laat de, Jos (KNMI)
I am working with (geostationary) satellite data, and one of the things I want to do is plot a map (coastlines) on top of the satellite image. As an IDL user I know how to do this in IDL (although in IDL it is a bit of a hassle), but I don't seem to be able to figure out how this could be done in p

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting basemap on top of other data

2011-12-09 Thread Benjamin Root
On Friday, December 9, 2011, Laat de, Jos (KNMI) wrote: > I am working with (geostationary) satellite data, and one of the things I want to do is plot a map (coastlines) on top of the satellite image. As an IDL user I know how to do this in IDL (although in IDL it is a bit of a hassle), but I don’

[Matplotlib-users] collections?

2011-12-09 Thread Daniel Hyams
I can't tell if I'm misusing collections here, or if there is a bug. Anyway, what I'm trying to do is keep track of a group of rectangles generated from a bar plot. Instead of letting there be a large number of artists added to the axes, I wanted to just group them into a collection and add the c

Re: [Matplotlib-users] collections?

2011-12-09 Thread Tony Yu
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote: > I can't tell if I'm misusing collections here, or if there is a bug. > Anyway, what I'm trying to do is keep track of a group of rectangles > generated from a bar plot. Instead of letting there be a large number of > artists added to the axe

Re: [Matplotlib-users] collections?

2011-12-09 Thread Daniel Hyams
Tried, but unfortunately it did not make any difference :( On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Tony Yu wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote: > >> I can't tell if I'm misusing collections here, or if there is a bug. >> Anyway, what I'm trying to do is keep track of a grou

Re: [Matplotlib-users] collections?

2011-12-09 Thread Benjamin Root
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote: > Tried, but unfortunately it did not make any difference :( > > Just as an interesting point... don't know if it means anything. In v1.1.x, we now return a "BarContainer" from the bar() function. This container subclasses the tuple type, whic

Re: [Matplotlib-users] collections?

2011-12-09 Thread Daniel Hyams
I'm sorry, I should have stated the version. I'm using 1.0.0, which just returns a list of rectangle artists. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote: > >> Tried, but unfortunately it did not make any difference :( >> >> > Just

Re: [Matplotlib-users] collections?

2011-12-09 Thread Tony Yu
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote: > I'm sorry, I should have stated the version. I'm using 1.0.0, which just > returns a list of rectangle artists. > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote: >> >>> Tried

Re: [Matplotlib-users] collections?

2011-12-09 Thread Tony Yu
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Tony Yu wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Daniel Hyams wrote: > >> I'm sorry, I should have stated the version. I'm using 1.0.0, which just >> returns a list of rectangle artists. >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> >>> On