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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Ortho basemap projection with limits crashes","articleBody":"Basemap documentation states that `ortho` projection can take ll/ur crnr limits. The following code seems like it should work (mpl 1.4.0), but does not:\n\n```\nfrom mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap\nm = Basemap(projection='ortho',lon_0=0,lat_0=0,llcrnrlat=-10,llcrnrlon=-10,urcrnrlat=10,urcrnrlon=10)\n```\n\nError:\n\n```\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\nAttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)\n\u003cipython-input-5-98fbf042abb9\u003e in \u003cmodule\u003e()\n----\u003e 1 m = Basemap(projection='ortho',lon_0=0,lat_0=0,llcrnrlat=-10,llcrnrlon=-10,urcrnrlat=10,urcrnrlon=10)\n\n/Users/mankoff/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.pyc in __init__(self, llcrnrlon, llcrnrlat, urcrnrlon, urcrnrlat, llcrnrx, llcrnry, urcrnrx, urcrnry, width, height, projection, resolution, area_thresh, rsphere, ellps, lat_ts, lat_1, lat_2, lat_0, lon_0, lon_1, lon_2, o_lon_p, o_lat_p, k_0, no_rot, suppress_ticks, satellite_height, boundinglat, fix_aspect, anchor, celestial, round, epsg, ax)\n   1032         self.area_thresh = area_thresh\n   1033         # define map boundary polygon (in lat/lon coordinates)\n-\u003e 1034         blons, blats, self._boundarypolyll, self._boundarypolyxy = self._getmapboundary()\n   1035         self.boundarylats = blats\n   1036         self.boundarylons = blons\n\n/Users/mankoff/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.pyc in _getmapboundary(self)\n   1464             # circular region.\n   1465             thetas = np.linspace(0.,2.*np.pi,2*nx*ny)[:-1]\n-\u003e 1466             rminor = self._height\n   1467             rmajor = self._width\n   1468             x = rmajor*np.cos(thetas) + rmajor\n\nAttributeError: 'Basemap' object has no attribute '_height'\n\u003e /Users/mankoff/Library/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py(1466)_getmapboundary()\n   1465             thetas = np.linspace(0.,2.*np.pi,2*nx*ny)[:-1]\n-\u003e 1466             rminor = self._height\n   1467             rmajor = self._width\n\nipdb\u003e\n```\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mankoff","@type":"Person","name":"mankoff"},"datePublished":"2014-09-10T13:41:26.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/3497/matplotlib/issues/3497"}