Hi,
I would like to add coastlines to a map but do not want interior
'coastlines'. At present, without them my continents are not distinct enough
from the data I am plotting in the background. But, when I draw them using
drawcoastlines(), I also get e.g. the great lakes showing up, and this just
makes my world maps look messy and distracts from my data which should be
the main focus. Does anyone know of a way to force this to happen, or is it
something that might be added, i.e. splitting the function into
drawcoastlines() and drawicoastlines() ... ?
Many thanks.
Ringo
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2009/10/1 ringobelingo <ringobelingo@...287...>:
I would like to add coastlines to a map but do not want interior
'coastlines'. At present, without them my continents are not distinct enough
from the data I am plotting in the background. But, when I draw them using
drawcoastlines(), I also get e.g. the great lakes showing up, and this just
makes my world maps look messy and distracts from my data which should be
the main focus. Does anyone know of a way to force this to happen, or is it
something that might be added, i.e. splitting the function into
drawcoastlines() and drawicoastlines() ... ?
The easiest way to address this is to obtain (or make) a GIS shapefile
that has the coastlines you'd like to see. Then use the
readshapefile() method on your Basemap object instead of the
drawcoastlines() method.
my_map = Basemap(...)
my_map.readshapefile(my_shpfile_name)
Cheers,
Scott
Scott Sinclair wrote:
2009/10/1 ringobelingo <ringobelingo@...287...>:
I would like to add coastlines to a map but do not want interior
'coastlines'. At present, without them my continents are not distinct enough
from the data I am plotting in the background. But, when I draw them using
drawcoastlines(), I also get e.g. the great lakes showing up, and this just
makes my world maps look messy and distracts from my data which should be
the main focus. Does anyone know of a way to force this to happen, or is it
something that might be added, i.e. splitting the function into
drawcoastlines() and drawicoastlines() ... ?
The easiest way to address this is to obtain (or make) a GIS shapefile
that has the coastlines you'd like to see. Then use the
readshapefile() method on your Basemap object instead of the
drawcoastlines() method.
my_map = Basemap(...)
my_map.readshapefile(my_shpfile_name)
Cheers,
Scott
You can also use the 'area_thresh' keyword to control the minimum size of coastline features that are drawn. area_thresh=1000000 makes the Great Lakes disappear, at the expense of making all the islands except Greenland disappear too. If that's unacceptable, you'll have to do as Scott suggests and create a shapfile without the lakes.
-Jeff
Hi Scott,
thanks for your response. This seems like the way to go!
Ringo
Scott Sinclair-4 wrote:
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2009/10/1 ringobelingo <ringobelingo@...287...>:
I would like to add coastlines to a map but do not want interior
'coastlines'. At present, without them my continents are not distinct
enough
from the data I am plotting in the background. But, when I draw them
using
drawcoastlines(), I also get e.g. the great lakes showing up, and this
just
makes my world maps look messy and distracts from my data which should be
the main focus. Does anyone know of a way to force this to happen, or is
it
something that might be added, i.e. splitting the function into
drawcoastlines() and drawicoastlines() ... ?
The easiest way to address this is to obtain (or make) a GIS shapefile
that has the coastlines you'd like to see. Then use the
readshapefile() method on your Basemap object instead of the
drawcoastlines() method.
my_map = Basemap(...)
my_map.readshapefile(my_shpfile_name)
Cheers,
Scott
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Hi Jeff,
I had already tried area_thresh, but suffered from the limitation that you
pointed out, namely that although the inland waterways disappear, it is at
the expense of a lot of land. That's why I wondered if the function might be
splittable to avoid such issues.
But thanks anyway.
Ringo
Jeff Whitaker wrote:
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Scott Sinclair wrote:
2009/10/1 ringobelingo <ringobelingo@...287...>:
I would like to add coastlines to a map but do not want interior
'coastlines'. At present, without them my continents are not distinct
enough
from the data I am plotting in the background. But, when I draw them
using
drawcoastlines(), I also get e.g. the great lakes showing up, and this
just
makes my world maps look messy and distracts from my data which should
be
the main focus. Does anyone know of a way to force this to happen, or is
it
something that might be added, i.e. splitting the function into
drawcoastlines() and drawicoastlines() ... ?
The easiest way to address this is to obtain (or make) a GIS shapefile
that has the coastlines you'd like to see. Then use the
readshapefile() method on your Basemap object instead of the
drawcoastlines() method.
my_map = Basemap(...)
my_map.readshapefile(my_shpfile_name)
Cheers,
Scott
You can also use the 'area_thresh' keyword to control the minimum size
of coastline features that are drawn. area_thresh=1000000 makes the
Great Lakes disappear, at the expense of making all the islands except
Greenland disappear too. If that's unacceptable, you'll have to do as
Scott suggests and create a shapfile without the lakes.
-Jeff
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