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I wanted to draw a choropleth map using basemap. My plan was to read the polygons from the shapefile vis `readshapefile` and then further process them using `shapely`, `descartes`, etc....

Behrouz-Babaki

Moving issue from matplotlib https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5991 --- @mnky9800n commented 12 hours ago When passing a value when creating the Basemap object, if that value is a numpy.nan then python 2.x crashes...

tacaswell

CEA projection: plotting all the data works, plotting part of the data fails.

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Using the following setup, Python 2.7/matplotlib 1.2.1/basemap 1.0.6 ``` python from mpl_toolkits import basemap m1 = basemap.Basemap(projection='cea', lon_0=0) lon = [-135, -45, 45, 135] lat = [45, 45, 45, 45]...

jakevdp

Polar Projection PDF Issue

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Python 3.4 Conda 3.18.3 Matplotlib 1.5.1 basemap 1.0.7 Adobe Reader XI Trying to plot a polar projection with a custom shapefile results in an error when opening the PDF in...

avipersin

pcolormesh actually requires the X,Y to be +1 size of the data array

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Kind of ran into an unexpected quirk with pcolormesh that perhaps could be improved to save users like me from themselves! The X, Y arrays to this function need to...

akrherz

pcolormesh for _cylproj and _pseudocyl projections are broken

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This is due to the fact that calling pcolormesh with either of these projections needs to perform a shiftdata function. But shiftdata assumes that the longitudes correspond 1-to-1 with the...

solter

basemap drawcountries() old country file

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When you plot a map of Africa. The borders between Sudan and South Sudan are missing. I think basemap is using old shapefiles for the country borders. Would be nice...

martinJazey

contour and contourf produce conflicing results for certain projections

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Originally posted [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33850052/matplotlib-why-inconsistent-results-between-contour-and-contourf) because I wasn't convinced it was a bug (I'm new to matplotlib)... but I'm increasingly convinced it is a bug, so here we are. I'm plotting some...

johnhcc

support pandas Series as input for lat/lon -> x/y conversion

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Using `pd.Series()` as input for lat/long -> x/y conversion does currently raise a RuntimeError: ``` python x,y = map_katins(df["lon"], df["lat"]) RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) in () 15 #...

jankatins

Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection for full globe

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The [Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_azimuthal_equal-area_projection) can show the full globe, as in the example image in the Wikipedia article. However, with Basemap(projection='laea',...) I'm only able to plot a small portion...

rwogburn