[Matplotlib-users] Blue marble doesn't map to regional ortho projection correctly

[Benjamin Root]

Indeed, that is obviously wrong. Could you file a bug report up on
basemap's github page? Basemap is now under new management, so I will see
what I can do to address the problem for you.

Cheers!
Ben Root

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Don Morton <don.morton at borealscicomp.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I could easily be doing something wrong.  I posted this issue about two
> years ago and never saw a response, so I'll try again.  It's more of an
> academic question - I can work around the issue.  In the following code,
> I'm
> trying to plot a regional ortho projection over central Europe (I've
> commented out the global projection), and then trying to use a bluemarble
> background.  As you can see from the attached image, global bluemarble
> background is plotted, not a regional one.  This also happens with
> shadedrelief and etopo.
>
> <http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/file/n46944/ortho.png>
>
> import mpl_toolkits.basemap as bm
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> import numpy as np
>
> """
> theMap = bm.Basemap(projection='ortho',
>                     lat_0=48.2, lon_0=16.4)
> """
>
> theMap = bm.Basemap(projection='ortho',
>                     lat_0=48.2, lon_0=16.4,
>                     llcrnry=-1000000.0, llcrnrx=-1000000.0,
>                     urcrnry=1000000.0, urcrnrx=1000000.0,
>                     resolution='l', area_thresh=1000)
>
> theMap.drawcoastlines()
> theMap.bluemarble()
>
> plt.show()
>
>
>
>
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