I'm in the process of rewriting a coworkers IDL code into python and am coming up with some differences that I'm confused about. According to other SO questions and mailing list threads I've found ...

I was trying to plot data only on continent. I asked a question about this before and I've got the answer here. Now when I implemented it in the code, the program will run without giving an e...

I have a dateset of around 60000 shapes (with lat/lon coordinates of each corner) which I want to draw on a map using matplotlib and basemap. This is the way I am doing it at the moment: for ii i...

I want to use a basemap figure as a background and plot things ontop. As the generation of the basemap figure (a polar stereographic plot) is quite time intensive I only want to do this once. The...

I want to know how to create a popup box in a basemap plot. When I hover my mouse over a location , it should trigger the popup box. Is this possible?

I am plotting data from an aircraft on a map and I would like to insert this 75px by 29px PNG image of an airplane at the coordinates of the latest data point on the plot. As far as I know and ha...