Dear,
you can try my tutorial to achieve this properly :
http://www.geophysique.be/2011/02/20/matplotlib-basemap-tutorial-09-drawing-circles/
Cheers,
Thom
ps : on the "things to do when I have some time" list : commit a method to the
default basemap package to do this...
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 21:23:18 -0600
From: ben.r...@ou.edu
To: questions.a...@gmail.com
CC: Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] add cirlce around lat lon
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, questions anon <questions.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to draw a simple circle around a specified latitude and
> longitude but I cannot find an appropriate command.
> I have tried using
> map.drawgreatcircle(myLON, myLAT,myLON, myLAT, linewidth=20,color='k')
> but this doesn't do anything
> or even
> map.drawgreatcircle(myLON+1, myLAT+1,myLON-1, myLAT-1, linewidth=2,color='k')
> and this appears to draw a line.
> Any other commands I could try for this?
> thanks in advance
>
drawgreatcircle() doesn't actually draw a circle, but rather an arc that
represents the shortest distance between two points on the globe.
Maybe you would rather use a Circle object?
Ben Root
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