External resources

• Official basemap documentation Some parts of the tutorial are taken directly from there.

Installation:

• The official docs

• A good blog post

Basic functions:

• Basemap page with all the marker information

• Basemap page with all the information about color codes

• Colormesh docs

• Setting colormesh levels

• imshow

  • Combining an image and a plot in matplotlib

  • Adding small images to basemap

  • Image rotation using imshow

  • Complex example using imshow, shiftgrid and transform_scalar

• Vector rotation without regular grids using numpy

Zoom:

• Zooming in Basemap

• Matplotlib portion zooming techniques

3D:

• mplot3d home page

• Matplotlib 3d examples (no maps yet)

• Matplotlib 3d (Axes3D) API

• StackOverflow question explaining how to fill the polygons in matplotlib3d and basemap

Clipping:

• The entry at GeoExamples

• Clipping a matplotlib path

• Creating paths using matplotlib

• Creating polygons from a shapefile

• Understanding Basemap transformations

Shapefiles:

• StackOverflow question about drawing polygons

• Patch collection example

• Inverse function for zip

Styling:

• Colors in matplotlib

• Arrow styles in matplotlib

• How Bad Is Your Colormap?

• Creating custom color maps

Colorbar:

• Colorbar official docs

Subplots:

• Nice matplotlib tutorial with a good subplots section

• GridSpec and SubplotSpec detailed explanation

Crontab:

• Generating matplotlib graphs without a running X server

Utilities:

• Alternative way to get is_land functionality, much faster

• Example of maskoceans usage

• Good example of interp usage

External examples:

• Drawing heat maps in Basemap

• Another Basemap tutorial

Other python/GIS resources:

• Python GDAL/OGR Cookbook

• Huge set of Matplotlib examples