How to Increase Matplotlib Basemap Size?

Question

How can I increase the size of the basemap? It is small compared to the size of the accompanying color bar. My basemap includes the geographic locations that I want, it is just physically too small. Thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide

Are you using an interactive backend?

tacaswell
– tacaswell

2013-02-20 06:41:26 +00:00
Commented Feb 20, 2013 at 6:41 — tacaswell
– tacaswell, Commented Feb 20, 2013 at 6:41
can you post some sample code that we can modify?

Paul H
– Paul H

2013-02-20 16:12:56 +00:00
Commented Feb 20, 2013 at 16:12 — Paul H
– Paul H, Commented Feb 20, 2013 at 16:12

ramiro · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-26 11:07:53Z

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One possibilty is to call plt.figure(figsize=(WIDTH, HEIGHT)) before you call any of the drawing methods of your map object, like so:

from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.figure(figsize=(12,6))
map = Basemap()
map.drawcoastlines()
map.plot()

answered Jan 26, 2014 at 11:07

ramiro

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