Matplotlib Basemap Example

Showing an example for some Matplotlib Basemap Projections

What is it for?

You can take a look at the Basemap Documentation, but it is not an good overview. The following maps are created with

drawcountries()
drawparallels()
drawmeridians()
shadedrelief()

for the same area (Europe). Some projections automatically render the whole world. Some projections are missing because they need extra parameters, which are not suitable within a loop for all other.

Projections

• 'cea' Cylindrical Equal Area
• 'mbtfpq' McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic
• 'aeqd' Azimuthal Equidistant
• 'sinu' Sinusoidal
• 'poly' Polyconic
• 'gnom' Gnomonic
• 'moll' Mollweide
• 'lcc' Lambert Conformal
• 'tmerc' Transverse Mercator
• 'gall' Gall Stereographic Cylindrical
• 'mill' Miller Cylindrical
• 'merc' Mercator
• 'stere' Stereographic
• 'eqdc' Equidistant Conic
• 'cyl' Cylindrical Equidistant
• 'hammer' Hammer
• 'nsper' Near-Sided Perspective
• 'eck4' Eckert IV
• 'aea' Albers Equal Area
• 'kav7' Kavrayskiy VII
• 'cass' Cassini-Soldner
• 'laea' Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
• 'robin' Robinson

Rendering Time

Missing Projections

Not in the gallery, because extra parameters needed (mostly lat_1 or something like that)

• 'omerc' Oblique Mercator
• 'nplaea' North-Polar Lambert Azimuthal
• 'npaeqd' North-Polar Azimuthal Equidistant
• 'rotpole' Rotated Pole
• 'npstere' North-Polar Stereographic
• 'spstere' South-Polar Stereographic
• 'geos' Geostationary
• 'spaeqd' South-Polar Azimuthal Equidistant
• 'ortho' Orthographic
• 'vandg' van der Grinten (a lot of RAM needed!!)
• 'splaea' South-Polar Lambert Azimuthal

Gallery

HTML file

Is in the Git and can be used for the own webspace to show a gallery.