Dear all,
I wondered if there's any principle reason one should not try to use Basemap with other planetary data?
I am assuming, as long as projections are used that follow certain standards there should not be any problems, right?
Of course any of the methods like drawcountries() and so on don't make sense, but I guess it would be cool to have these or similar things (no countries on Mars yet) reimplemented for some useful things for Mars? Something like drawcanyons()
Please tell me if one could see an upcoming problem with this idea!
Best regards,
Michael
Others can probably comment further on this, but at the very least, I know that a user can utilize basemap for plotting other pieces of geographical data by supplying their own shapefiles. I do this all the time for my own plots where I want to include local counties and municipal roads. If there are shapefiles for Martian geographical features, it is possible to use basemap for that.
Ben Root
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:21 PM, K.-Michael Aye <kmichael.aye@…287…> wrote:
Dear all,
I wondered if there’s any principle reason one should not try to use
Basemap with other planetary data?
I am assuming, as long as projections are used that follow certain
standards there should not be any problems, right?
Of course any of the methods like drawcountries() and so on don’t make
sense, but I guess it would be cool to have these or similar things (no
countries on Mars yet) reimplemented for some useful things for Mars?
Something like drawcanyons()
Please tell me if one could see an upcoming problem with this idea!
Best regards,
Michael