Re: [Matplotlib-users] Azmuthal Equidistant won't plot the entire earth!

2008-12-31 Thread Rob Frohne
Thanks Jeff! That is just wonderful! No need for a non-spherical earth model for me. Again, thanks! Rob Jeff Whitaker wrote: > > Rob Frohne wrote: >> Hi Jeff, >> >> I am an amateur radio operator, and I am writing a little application to >> display where the major lobe of my antenna is point

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Azmuthal Equidistant won't plot the entire earth!

2008-12-31 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Rob Frohne wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I am an amateur radio operator, and I am writing a little application to > display where the major lobe of my antenna is pointing. I can control the > direction of my antenna with the computer, and it would be nice to have a > display of the whole world, as well as

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Azmuthal Equidistant won't plot the entire earth!

2008-12-30 Thread Rob Frohne
Hi Jeff, I am an amateur radio operator, and I am writing a little application to display where the major lobe of my antenna is pointing. I can control the direction of my antenna with the computer, and it would be nice to have a display of the whole world, as well as circles representing how fa

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Azmuthal Equidistant won't plot the entire earth!

2008-12-30 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Rob Frohne wrote: > Hi, > > I think I am running into the same thing John is here. When you want to > display the whole earth in 'aeqd' mode, the projection needs to be onto a > circle. As it is, what is plotted is a square that just fits inside the > circle I want. Here is a link to a photo of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Azmuthal Equidistant won't plot the entire earth!

2008-12-30 Thread Rob Frohne
Hi, I think I am running into the same thing John is here. When you want to display the whole earth in 'aeqd' mode, the projection needs to be onto a circle. As it is, what is plotted is a square that just fits inside the circle I want. Here is a link to a photo of the kind of projection I wan

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Azmuthal Equidistant won't plot the entire earth!

2008-12-30 Thread Rob Frohne
I just thought I would include some code so you can see what I mean. from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np map=Basemap(projection='aeqd', lat_0=46, lon_0=-118.4, width=2830, height=2830, resolution='c', area_thresh=1000.) m