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