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The main purpose of this release is to take advantage of the new aspect 
ratio handling in matplotlib 0.87.3.
Some new features have been added (new polar-centric convenience 
projections, sinusoidal projection, ability to plot land-sea masks, 
pcolormesh method), and numerous bugs were squashed.
Here is the full list of changes since 0.8.2:
 * updated for new matplotlib aspect ratio handling.
 Now maps will always have the correct aspect ratio.
 * if resolution keyword is set to None when Basemap
 instance is created, no boundary data sets are needed
 (methods to draw boundaries, like drawcoastlines, will
 raise an exception).
 * update to proj4 module - renamed pyproj to avoid
 conflicts with proj4 module from CDAT.
 * createfigure method deprecated, since maps
 will now automatically have the correct aspect ratio.
 * Added new projections Xpstere, Xplaea, Xpaeqd (where X
 can be n or s). These are special-case, polar-centric
 versions of the stereographic, lambert azimuthal equal area
 and azimuthal equidistant projections that don't require
 you specify the lat/lon values of the lower-left and upper-right
 corners. 
 * fixed bugs in plot, scatter and mapboundary methods for
 miller, cylindrical and mercator projections.
 * 'crude' and 'low' resolution boundary datasets now installed
 by default. basemap_data package now only needed for to get
 'intermediate' and 'high' resolution datasets.
 * moved all packages under single lib/ directory so
 setuptools' "develop" command works properly.
 * Added sinusoidal projection.
 * bilinear interpolation routines can return masked arrays with
 values outside range of data coordinates masked.
 * New examples (warpimage.py - warping an image to
 different map projections, polarmaps.py - simplified polar
 projections, garp.py - 'World According to Garp' maps).
 * pcolormesh method added.
 * drawlsmask method added for masking oceans and/or land areas.
 5 minute land-sea mask dataset added.
-Jeff
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