Closed jsh9 closed 6 years ago
I love this in theory 'cause I forgot too late I left out states, but is there anyway to refine this example so it's not quite this complicated?
I thought about it and I don't think the code can be simplified much while maintaining the look of the map.
I added three elements: (1) Alaska and Hawaii (2) Light gray lines to bound Alaska and Hawaii so that people know that they are map insets (3) Color bar showing what each color means
Each of the three elements are essential to a scientifically complete map, and the codes I wrote for each of the three elements are already quite simple. Also, for (1) and (2), I choose to use Mercator projection, because (a) this projection makes Alaska look "upright" instead of "tilted", and (b) enables me to draw straight gray lines on the map.
Made a new commit just now. Suggestions welcome!
Sorry this sat for so long! Hurricane season distracted me and I forgot to get back to this. Thanks for your contribution!
I modified the example so that the map output imitates the map shown here (basically, Alaska and Hawaii are shown on the bottom left corner of the main map as small insets): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population_density
I based my modifications partly on some code snippets in this stackoverflow thread (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39742305/how-to-use-basemap-python-to-plot-us-with-50-states).