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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Jeremy Lounds <lo...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sorry, its me again! I am not sure where else to ask this, so please
> bear with me.
>
> Does anyone know of a tutorial or source on how I could get county
> boundaries ready to be plotted on my basemap output? I have
> "drawstates" working wonderfully, and need something like
> "drawcounties"
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> ~ Jeremy
>
>
Jeremy,

If you have access to the shapefile for county boundaries, you can call
basemap's readshapefile() function to draw the counties.  You can specify
line properties just like you would for a call to plotting the state
boundaries.

As a matter of fact, drawstates() is, essentially, a call to
readshapefile(), but it refers to a file that came packaged with basemap for
convenience.

I hope that helps,
Ben Root

Hello,

Sorry, its me again! I am not sure where else to ask this, so please
bear with me.

Does anyone know of a tutorial or source on how I could get county
boundaries ready to be plotted on my basemap output? I have
"drawstates" working wonderfully, and need something like
"drawcounties"

Thanks in advance!

~ Jeremy

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Jeremy Lounds <lo...@gm...> wrote:
> I have another question for the group...
>
> I saw in the archives someone else who was getting the error I am now
> running in to now. He said he solved it by recompiling from sources. I
> was wondering what version of Python is optimal for matplotlib and
> basemap?

What platform are you on -- compiling from source is particularly easy
on linux.  I use the stock python, and then get all the dependencies
for all the packages I want t build from source:

> sudo apt-get build_dep numpy scipy matplotlib mayavi traits cython sympy

Then check out the source from the version control repositories (svn/git/hg) and

> python setup.py install --prefix=~/whatever

This will almost always work, out of the box, and some version of this
is what most of the serious users do.

Then if you encounter a runtime problem or a real bug, report it to
the mailing list, get the bug fixed, svn up and reinstall.

Other platforms (win32, osx) are possible but much harder.

JDH

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Jeremy Lounds <lo...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> I am running 0.98.5.2, so it should be good, right? Do you think I should
> try upgrading to 1.0.0?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Jeremy
>
>
Jeremy,

Version 0.98.x is relatively old (in terms of code maturity).  I don't know
when .get_autoscalex_on() came about, but there have been plenty of other
improvements since that version that it would definitely be worth your while
to update to version 1.0.0.

Ben Root