Using Python to plot points on a World Map [closed]

Question

I want to make a earthquake world map app that pulls data from a us.gov text file and displays one earthquake at a time on the map as a dot. I know how to pull and parse the data, but I'm struggling with how to actually plot the points on the map. Can anyone tell me how they would do this with Python? I've done it with Java before by using an imported class called Zen.Java, is there an equivalent for Python?

Answer 1

Take a look at matplotlib basemap http://matplotlib.org/basemap/

and examples here http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/examples.html

Answer 2

Try pyGal. Its a nice lib for python, with many features. http://www.pygal.org/en/stable/documentation/types/maps/pygal_maps_world.html