On Sep 11, 7:22 pm, C Barr Leigh <cpblpub...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to get started with plotting maps in python. I need to read > "shape files" (.shp) and make maps. There seem to be many efforts but > none is complete? I'm looking for suggestions and troubleshooting. > > The basemap package is obviously at an impressive stage and comes with > some data:http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps > > but it cannot read shapefiles when their coordinates are not in > geographic projection. min are in a lambert, so the readshapefile > fails. > > Apparently there is a utility that can convert a .shp file to lat/lon > coordinates, but it fails for me. “You can convert the shapefile to > geographic - coordinates using the shpproj utility from the shapelib > tools - (http://shapelib.maptools.org/shapelib-tools.html)" > For me, this gives: > “unable to process projection, exiting...” > > Has anyone overcome these problems? > > Thanks! > Chris
Not sure - but perhaps the GDAL? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
