I have a shapefile for each US state and I would like to add all shapefiles together which I do using Basemap and readshapefile and so on. Now my problem is that Alaska is huge and doesn't fit into the map. I would like to add Alaska extra in the west of Texas (left bottom corner) which is the normal approach to solve this problem. Therefore I manipulated the shapefile of Alaska to move the shape using this code: for t in range(len(shape)): l = list(shape[t]) l[1] -= 4000000 l[0] += 1000000 tup = tuple(l) shape[t] = tup Well as I mentioned Alaska is huge so is there any easy way to resize the shapefile? Thanks for your ideas! Edit: Some additional information: I am using the whole thing to visualize the Census 2013 data. My current output looks like this: Projection: Albers Equal Areas Continue reading...
