Documentation - Basemap

[chiragnagpal]

http://matplotlib.org/users/screenshots.html

Basemap demo say, "could not load basemap" Probably sphinx compiled on a machine without Basemap?

[tacaswell]

yup, that would be my fault, sorry about that!

[jenshnielsen]

This happens easily because https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/doc/pyplots/plotmap.py just fails silently when basemap is not installed. I vote for either removing the silent failure, replac that example with a static image or removing it al together. We are already linking to basemap from http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/index.html with a static image

[WeatherGod]

my vote is for a static image.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Jens Hedegaard Nielsen <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

This happens easily because
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/doc/pyplots/plotmap.py
just fails silently when basemap is not installed. I vote for either
removing the silent failure, replac that example with a static image or
removing it al together. We are already linking to basemap from
http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/index.html with a static image

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[tacaswell]

👍 on static image

[mdboom]

Yes. Disk space is much cheaper than mental bandwidth!

[jenshnielsen]

Fixed by #6243