On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Brian Larsen <balar...@lanl.gov> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am plotting satellite orbit files and it looks really nice to plot an
> Earth in the center with the continents on it to orient people to where the
> spacecraft is. Does anyway know how to do this? All I seem to be able to
> do is create a whole globe as the figure.
>
> In this simple example:
>
> from pylab import *
> r = ndarray(40)
> r[:] = 3.3
> rad = linspace(0, 2*pi, 40)
> figure()
> subplot(111, polar=True)
> plot(rad, r, lw=3)
> draw()
>
>
> wouldn't it look great to have the earth plotted in the space up to 1.0 (as
> measured in earth radii)?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Brian
>
>
>
Have you checked out the basemap tool?
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/basemap/doc/html/
Ben Root
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