Broken Examples

[avipersin]

Many of the basemap examples https://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/examples.html are broken. This is mainly due to the datasets no longer existing at the original locations.

Instead of statically linking to the datasets which will create problems everytime they move why not just create a folder with the downloaded netcdf files and link to those?

[molinav]

In the last days I have been reviewing all the examples in the examples folder and the ones from the documentation. All the documentation examples have been fixed (i.e. finding alternatives to broken links and fixing outdated syntax).

Most but not all of the examples in the examples folder have also been fixed in a similar way. I list below the examples that are still failing (just as a reminder for myself):

• [ ] animate.py
• [ ] lic_demo.py (difficult to make it work again)
• [ ] save_background.py (see https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/issues/353)
• [ ] test.py
• [ ] testgdal.py (difficult to make it work again)
• [ ] testwmsimage.py
• [ ] warpimage.py (only some of the plots fail)