Description
I ran into this problem while trying to plot interpolated data NOT on a regular latlon grid. Orthographic projection works but cylindrical does not.
Relevant code:
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
levels = 20
m = Basemap(projection="cyl") # causes ValueError
# m = Basemap(projection="ortho", lat_0=0., lon_0=0., resolution='l') # works, does not cause ValueError
MC = m.contourf(lons_deg, lats_deg, vals, levels, ax=ax, tri=True, latlon=True) # latlon=True interprets first two args as lon and lat respectively
Note that lats_deg, lons_deg, and vals are 1d np arrays with irregular point spacing (no meshgrid). I used tri=True to allow interpolation. This works fine on orthographic projection. But with cylindrical I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "IcosahedralGeodesicLattice.py", line 146, in <module>
test_lattice.plot_data(data)
File "/home/wesley/programming/Mapping/Lattice.py", line 86, in plot_data
MC = m.contourf(lons_deg, lats_deg, vals, levels, ax=ax, tri=True, latlon=True) # latlon=True interprets first two args as LON and LAT RESPECTIVELY
File "/home/wesley/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py", line 544, in with_transform
fix_wrap_around=plotfunc.__name__ not in ["scatter"])
File "/home/wesley/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py", line 4797, in shiftdata
if fix_wrap_around and itemindex:
ValueError: The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous. Use a.any() or a.all()
Looking at the relevant file, the docstring for shiftdata says "Only valid for cylindrical/pseudo-cylindrical global projections and data on regular lat/lon grids. longitudes and data can be 1-d or 2-d, if 2-d it is assumed longitudes are 2nd (rightmost) dimension."
So should it not be being called with tri=True? Sorry if I have misunderstood something, let me know. Thanks!