thanks for the responses.
Sebastians suggestion to use tissot function is exactly what I needed.
map.tissot(lon, lat, r, 96)
thanks again
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Thomas Lecocq <thlec...@msn.com> wrote:
> 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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