Re: [Matplotlib-users] could I get rid of the contour of Antarctica by using Basemap?

2013-12-31 Thread Chao YUE
Hi Sterling and Alex, thanks to both of you. I followed what proposed by you Alex and it's working perfectly. my version of matplotlib is 1.2.0 and I don't want to upgrade before I submit the MS and so I pick up the code of get_segments method from the github and put it in my 1.2.0 matplotlib and

[Matplotlib-users] could I get rid of the contour of Antarctica by using Basemap?

2013-12-30 Thread Chao YUE
Dear all, Happy new year! I am using Basemap toolkit to make some maps, I would like to write something at the bottom of the map, whose position is now taken by the contourf of Antarctica. Is there a way I can keep contours of other continents but suppressing the one for antarctica? I attached

Re: [Matplotlib-users] could I get rid of the contour of Antarctica by using Basemap?

2013-12-30 Thread Sterling Smith
Chao, I know nothing of the Basemap toolkit so I can't comment on the removal of continents, but presumably the text command you are using takes some keywords to set the properties of the bounding box. Try setting the background of the bounding box to white so that your words show up cleanly.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] could I get rid of the contour of Antarctica by using Basemap?

2013-12-30 Thread Alex Goodman
A quick apology for a typo in my previous message, the method in question is drawcoastlines(), not drawcontinents(). The code snippet should still be correct though! On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Alex Goodman alex.good...@colostate.eduwrote: Hi Chao, Actually it is possible to remove the