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On 2014年01月22日 1:51 PM, geo_leeman wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Several of us have been stumped on how to create a map with basemap that
> doesn't have a rectangular bounding box. I've attached an example of what
> we are trying to create (done with GMT and not ours). Browsing the docs I
> thought it may be possible with a floating axis as in the gallery, but that
> doesn't do the trick either. Is there a way to create such a plot with
> basemap?
I don't think so. Not easily, with labeled meridians and parallels.
Eric
>
> Thanks,
> J.L.
>
> <http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/file/n42766/GMT-contour.jpg>
>

Is there an easy way to get pyplot to treat calls to text() or
annotate() as if they were "data", so that it automatically expanded
the axis limits to include the text within the plot boundaries (i.e.,
not in the margin)? My current workaround involves creating the text,
calling draw(), getting the text's bbox patch extents, transforming
those extents to data coordinates, and manually changing the ylim of
the axes object to something bigger than the transformed upper extent.
This seems rather roundabout to me, and I'm wondering if there's an
easier way. Here is a link to a github gist of an MWE illustrating
the problem, and my current workaround:
https://gist.github.com/drammock/8570568
thanks
-- dan
Daniel McCloy
http://dan.mccloy.info/
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
University of Washington