hi, is it possible to restrict a contour plot to a
country? if i grid my data to projection coordinates
and then make a contour plot i can draw the country
borders on top, but since the data plotted outside
the country is a gridding artifact i would rather
not plot it.
to make it more clear what i mean:
http://rokuko.net/basicmap.png
any ideas? can one make a single country transparent?
best regards, yoshi
hi, is it possible to restrict a contour plot to a
country? if i grid my data to projection coordinates
and then make a contour plot i can draw the country
borders on top, but since the data plotted outside
the country is a gridding artifact i would rather
not plot it.
Yoshi: There is no mechanism for doing this. It is possible, but you would need a way to create a mask for all the grid points outside the country of interest, and then use this mask to create a masked array to pass to contourf.
-Jeff
On 7/14/11 2:25 PM, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
to make it more clear what i mean:
http://rokuko.net/basicmap.pngany ideas? can one make a single country transparent?
best regards, yoshi
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On 7/14/11 2:25 PM, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
> hi, is it possible to restrict a contour plot to a
> country? if i grid my data to projection coordinates
> and then make a contour plot i can draw the country
> borders on top, but since the data plotted outside
> the country is a gridding artifact i would rather
> not plot it.Yoshi: There is no mechanism for doing this. It is possible, but you
would need a way to create a mask for all the grid points outside the
country of interest, and then use this mask to create a masked array to
pass to contourf.-Jeff
wouldn't it be possible to create such a mask using internals from
Basemap.drawcountries() somehow?
best regards, yoshi
Jeff, I just had a thought…
Isn’t the country borders drawn as Path or Polygon objects? I believe there are some matplotlib internal functions that can be given a list of points (such as those for a grid) and a path and it will return which points are within the path and which are outside. One could use that to make the mask.
Might make for a nice feature for basemap in the upcoming v1.1.0 release.
Ben Root
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Yoshi Rokuko <yoshi@…3676…> wrote:
±-------------------------------------------- Jeff Whitaker -----------+
On 7/14/11 2:25 PM, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
hi, is it possible to restrict a contour plot to a
country? if i grid my data to projection coordinates
and then make a contour plot i can draw the country
borders on top, but since the data plotted outside
the country is a gridding artifact i would rather
not plot it.
Yoshi: There is no mechanism for doing this. It is possible, but you
would need a way to create a mask for all the grid points outside the
country of interest, and then use this mask to create a masked array to
pass to contourf.
-Jeff
wouldn’t it be possible to create such a mask using internals from
Basemap.drawcountries() somehow?
best regards, yoshi
` Ben/Yoshi: The countries are not polygons, they are line
segments. Worse yet, they are all just lumped together with no
metadata (no way to know which lines define the country you want).
If you had a shapefile with just the country of interest in it,
defined as a polygon, then it’s doable You could take a look at
the source code for the is_land method, which tests to see if a
given x,y point is inside any of the continent polygons.
Let us know if you have you have the country polygon, and then I
can help you with the details.
-Jeff
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Yoshi:
Here’s the basic idea:
+----------------------------------------- Jeff Whitaker -----------+
Jeff, I just had a thought.... Isn't the country borders drawn as Path or Polygon objects? I believe there are some matplotlib internal functions that can be given a list of points (such as those for a grid) and a path and it will return which points are within the path and which are outside. One could use that to make the mask. Might make for a nice feature for basemap in the upcoming v1.1.0 release. Ben RootBen/Yoshi: The countries are not polygons, they are line segments. Worse yet, they are all just lumped together with no metadata (no way to know which lines define the country you want). If you had a shapefile with just the country of interest in it, defined as a polygon, then it's doable You could take a look at the source code for the is_land method, which tests to see if a given x,y point is inside any of the continent polygons. Let us know if you have you have the country polygon, and then I can help you with the details. -Jeff
>>> Sorry for being late, i was really busy. Thank you for your offer, I have
>>> the polygon now (attached), could you help me with this?
>>> Best regards, Yoshi
+----------------------------------------- Jeff Whitaker -----------+
Here's the basic idea:
1) read the germany.dat file, use it to create a _geoslib Poly instance,
i.e.from mpl_toolkits.basemap import _geoslib
b = np.asarray([lons,lats]).T # lons and lats are lists.
germanypoly = _geoslib.Polygon(b)2) loop over all the points on the grid and do
inside = _geoslib.Point((lonpt,latpt)).within(germanypoly)
filling a boolean array with the values.
3) use this boolean array as a mask to create a masked array from your
data. Then, when you plot the masked array with contourf only the
points inside germany will be contoured.Give this a try and let us know how it goes.
-Jeff
because of islands it doesn't work as expected i guess?
here is what i did:
bmap = Basemap(projection='aeqd', ...)
x, y = bmap(lons, lats)
npoints = 300
xi = np.linspace(np.amin(x), np.amax(x), npoints*.7178)
yi = np.linspace(np.amin(y), np.amax(y), npoints)
zi = griddata(x, y, var, xi, yi)
inside = np.zeros_like(zi)
lon, lat = np.loadtxt('germany-lon-lat-np.arr')
bx, by = bmap(lon, lat)
b = np.asarray([bx, by]).T
poly = _geoslib.Polygon(b)
i = 0
# i know this is slow, but ...
for y in yi:
for x in xi:
inside.flat[i] = _geoslib.Point((x,y)).within(poly)
i += 1
mzi = ma.masked_array(zi, mask=inside)
here is what it looks like:
http://rokuko.net/test.png
matlab includes NaNs right before and after islands in the lon
lat lists, is there something similar ?
thank you so far, best regards
Yoshi: Islands would be a problem. I was assuming you had one polygon. Can you get rid of the islands so you just have one closed polygon to use for a mask?
-Jeff
On 7/23/11 9:32 AM, Yoshi Rokuko wrote:
+----------------------------------------- Jeff Whitaker -----------+
Here's the basic idea:
1) read the germany.dat file, use it to create a _geoslib Poly instance,
i.e.from mpl_toolkits.basemap import _geoslib
b = np.asarray([lons,lats]).T # lons and lats are lists.
germanypoly = _geoslib.Polygon(b)2) loop over all the points on the grid and do
inside = _geoslib.Point((lonpt,latpt)).within(germanypoly)
filling a boolean array with the values.
3) use this boolean array as a mask to create a masked array from your
data. Then, when you plot the masked array with contourf only the
points inside germany will be contoured.Give this a try and let us know how it goes.
-Jeff
because of islands it doesn't work as expected i guess?
here is what i did:
bmap = Basemap(projection='aeqd', ...)
x, y = bmap(lons, lats)
npoints = 300
xi = np.linspace(np.amin(x), np.amax(x), npoints*.7178)
yi = np.linspace(np.amin(y), np.amax(y), npoints)
zi = griddata(x, y, var, xi, yi)
inside = np.zeros_like(zi)
lon, lat = np.loadtxt('germany-lon-lat-np.arr')
bx, by = bmap(lon, lat)
b = np.asarray([bx, by]).T
poly = _geoslib.Polygon(b)
i = 0
# i know this is slow, but ...
for y in yi:
for x in xi:
inside.flat[i] = _geoslib.Point((x,y)).within(poly)
i += 1
mzi = ma.masked_array(zi, mask=inside)here is what it looks like:
http://rokuko.net/test.pngmatlab includes NaNs right before and after islands in the lon
lat lists, is there something similar ?
