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DEPRECATED The DaViT Python project
http://vtsuperdarn.github.com/davitpy/
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Feature request: plotting data external to DavitPy on coastlines #340

Closed johncoxon closed 6 years ago

johncoxon commented 6 years ago

I notice that DavitPy has the ability to plot maps of data on coastlines. What would be incredibly useful is a generic class which would let me specify a coordinate system (e.g. AACGM) and then pass some data to plot on top of the coastlines. I've had a look at the code that does the coastline plotting and as far as I can tell, it's modifying the Basemap class in some way to achieve this. I'd be interested in learning more about how exactly this is achieved so that I could work on this feature and perhaps submit a pull request….

(Also, is there a Slack or similar for DavitPy where I can ask stupid questions about how I might go about doing this?)

aburrell commented 6 years ago

Hi @johncoxon, The modification of the basemap class is simply adding a datetime object, so that time-dependent coordinate systems (such as AACGM) can be used. Please do take a hack at this and see what you can do!

Right now davitpy doesn't use slack, but we have users and developers google groups. Are you a part of that already?

johncoxon commented 6 years ago

No, I'm not – can you point me at a link? I'm not sure the sort of questions I want to ask are well-suited to an email list, but the users group sounds useful!

aburrell commented 6 years ago

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/davitpy-users

I agree, and looking at the issues I think a slack group is needed.

johncoxon commented 6 years ago

It turns out that this is already possible using the calls in docs/notebook/maps.ipynb, so I will close this as it's a duplication of existing functionality!