Micah D. Cochran

Looks like this has been reported issue for GEOS https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/630 I wonder if it has actually be patched in the GEOS repository. The basemap supplied version of GEOS is a...

I believe the answer is 1.0.7. There might be a new release in the near future. The github development version is labeled [1.0.8](https://github.com/matplotlib/basemap/blob/master/lib/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py#L50). The documents stating 1.0.8 were probably generated...

drawstates function's docstring says "[d]raw state boundaries in Americas." In it current state, it won't work at all in Japan or anywhere is Asia. Basemap could definitely be updated to...

Short answers: No, and yes. Longer answer: `pyproj` is a `basemap` requirement and is a python wrapper for `proj.4`. `proj.4` does not have support this projection, see https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/issues/232 There is...

`Cartophy` uses `GDAL` for coordinate transformation. `GDAL` depends upon `proj.4` to do much of the heavy lifting for coordinate transformation.

UTM is a shortcut for Transverse Mercator or `tmerc`. It just populates a few extra parameters to make `tmerc` work. `tmerc` is supported by basemap. `etmerc` is a new algorithm...

There are several spatial index formats for shapefiles. I find it interesting that that pyshp doesn't support any of them.

Does installing the version that is in the repository fix the problem?

> I'm going to look into why conda update basemap doesn't go past 1.0.7. @johnrobertlawson basemap version 1.0.8 has not been released. If you want to read more about that...

Adobe Acrobat X also doesn't render it correctly. Google Chrome seems to render fine. > We've determined that the problem arises when the coastline includes lon, lat pairs in the...