Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap: Coastlines intersecting with map boundary

2012-09-17 Thread Joachim Saul
Jeff, thanks for your feedback! Jeff Whitaker [15.09.2012 17:25]: On 9/15/12 8:05 AM, Joachim Saul wrote: Hi there, in basemap coastlines are apparently (always?) drawn as closed polygons not exceeding the map boundary, i.e. when the coastline intersects with the map boundary the polygon

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap: Coastlines intersecting with map boundary

2012-09-17 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On 9/17/12 5:09 AM, Joachim Saul wrote: Jeff, thanks for your feedback! A workaround for this (having drawcoastlines use line segments instead of polygons) is now part of this pull request: https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/pull/78 Let's move discussion there.. -Jeff Jeff Whitaker

[Matplotlib-users] Basemap: Coastlines intersecting with map boundary

2012-09-15 Thread Joachim Saul
Hi there, in basemap coastlines are apparently (always?) drawn as closed polygons not exceeding the map boundary, i.e. when the coastline intersects with the map boundary the polygon is continued along the map boundary until the next intersection point. The somewhat annoying side effect of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap: Coastlines intersecting with map boundary

2012-09-15 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On 9/15/12 8:05 AM, Joachim Saul wrote: Hi there, in basemap coastlines are apparently (always?) drawn as closed polygons not exceeding the map boundary, i.e. when the coastline intersects with the map boundary the polygon is continued along the map boundary until the next intersection