Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: > Hi! > I don't know whether it is easy to produce a plot of a shapefile (a > geographical information systems vector file format, with an attached > database) using MPL: An example would be to have the a map with the > mean temperature for every country in the month of august mapped to a > colour. The shapefile has a "dbf" database with the temperature, and > the polygons making up the country boundaries can be extracted with > GDAL/OGR. > > Has anyone done anything like this? I guess that for very detailed > shapes (lots of polygons with loads of vertexes), it might be slow, > and of course, we need to get the data into Python first, but any > pointers would be very welcomed! > > Cheers! > Jose >
Jose: You can do this with the basemap toolkit (which can read simple shapefiles). See the 'fillstates.py' example in the examples directory. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
