Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
> I’ve been experimenting with basemap, and have been able to make maps using
> the orthographic and polyconic projections.  When I try to generate a map
> using the geostationary projection, I get the error message shown below.  I
> haven’t been able to make head or tail of this message; any advice will be
> appreciated.
>
> Phillip
>
> RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
>
> C:\Phillip\pmap.py in <module>()
>    6163
>    6164       # Create basemap object:
> -> 6165       map= Basemap(**map_parms)
>    6166       ax= fig.add_axes([0.1,0.08,0.7,0.82])
>    6167
>
> C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\mpl_toolkits\basemap\__init__.pyc in
> __init__(self, llcrnrlon, llc
> rnrlat, urcrnrlon, urcrnrlat, llcrnrx, llcrnry, urcrnrx, urcrnry, width,
> height, projection, res
> olution, area_thresh, rsphere, lat_ts, lat_1, lat_2, lat_0, lon_0, lon_1,
> lon_2, no_rot, suppres
> s_ticks, satellite_height, boundinglat, fix_aspect, anchor, ax)
>     680
>     681         # initialize proj4
> --> 682         proj =
> Proj(projparams,self.llcrnrlon,self.llcrnrlat,self.urcrnrlon,self.urcrnrl
> at)
>     683
>     684         # make sure axis ticks are suppressed.
>
> C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\mpl_toolkits\basemap\proj.pyc in
> __init__(self, projparams, llcrnr
> lon, llcrnrlat, urcrnrlon, urcrnrlat, urcrnrislatlon)
>     117             urcrnry = -llcrnry
>     118         elif self.projection == 'geos':
> --> 119             self._proj4 = pyproj.Proj(projparams)
>     120             # find major and minor axes of ellipse defining map proj
> region.
>     121             # h is measured from surface of earth at equator.
>
> C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\mpl_toolkits\basemap\pyproj.pyc in
> __new__(self, projparams, **kwa
> rgs)
>     146                     kvpairs.append(kvpair+' ')
>     147             projstring = ''.join(kvpairs)
> --> 148         return _Proj.__new__(self, projstring)
>     149
>     150     def __call__(self, *args, **kw):
>
> C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\mpl_toolkits\basemap\_proj.pyd in
> _proj.Proj.__cinit__ (src/_proj.
> c:587)()
>      23
>      24
> ---> 25
>      26
>      27
>
> RuntimeError: unknown prime meridian conversion id
> WARNING: Failure executing file: <pmap.py>
>
>   
Philip:  That's an error from the proj4 c library saying that it didn't 
like one of the parameters you used to define the projection.  Since you 
didn't include the parameters you used, I can't say which one is the 
culprit.

-Jeff

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