On 7/22/10 8:08 AM, mdekauwe wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Yes you are right! Apologies. Whilst it is easy enough to define the grid in
> this case as it is a regular lat,long grid. If it was for example a
> geostationary grid, I think this might be more difficult. Is there a way to
> return the grid for example from the basemap call, which can then be used in
> the contour call?
>
> I hope that makes sense.
>
> Thanks again.

If you have the lats and lons of the data grid, you can convert to map 
projection coordinates by calling the Basemap instance, i.e.

map = Basemap(....)
x,y = map(lons,lats)

you can then use the x,y values in contour

map.contourf(x,y,data)

Does that help?

-Jeff


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