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.. _examples:
Plotting data on a map (Example Gallery)
========================================
Following are a series of examples that illustrate how to use Basemap
instance methods to plot your data on a map. More examples are included
in the doc/examples directory of the basemap source distribution.
There are a number of Basemap instance methods for plotting data:
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.contour`: draw contour lines.
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.contourf`: draw filled contours.
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.imshow`: draw an image.
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.pcolor`: draw a pseudocolor plot.
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.pcolormesh`: draw a pseudocolor plot (faster version for regular meshes).
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.plot`: draw lines and/or markers.
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.scatter`: draw points with markers.
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.quiver`: draw vectors.
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.barbs`: draw `wind barbs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_model#Plotted_winds>`__.
* :func:`~mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap.drawgreatcircle`: draw a `great circle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle>`__.
Many of these instances methods simply forward to the corresponding matplotlib
`Axes <https://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html>`__ instance method,
with some extra pre/post processing and argument checking.
You can also plot on the map directly with the matplotlib
`pyplot <https://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html>`__ interface,
or the `OO api <https://matplotlib.org/examples/api/index.html>`__,
using the `Axes <https://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html>`__ instance
associated with the Basemap.
For more specifics of how to use the Basemap instance methods,
see :ref:`api-index`.
Here are the examples (many of which utilize the
`netcdf4-python <https://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/>`__ module
to retrieve datasets over http):
* Plot contour lines on a basemap
.. plot:: source/users/figures/contour1.py
* Plot precip with filled contours
.. plot:: source/users/figures/plotprecip.py
* Plot hurricane tracks from a shapefile
.. plot:: source/users/figures/hurrtracks.py
* Plot etopo5 topography/bathymetry data as an image (with
and without shading from a specified light source).
.. plot:: source/users/figures/plotetopo5.py
* Pseudo-color plot of SST and sea ice analysis.
.. plot:: source/users/figures/plotsst.py
* Plotting wind vectors and wind barbs.
.. plot:: source/users/figures/plotwindvec.py
* Draw great circle between NY and London.
.. plot:: source/users/figures/plotgreatcircle.py
* Draw day-night terminator on a map.
.. plot:: source/users/figures/plotdaynight.py
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