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This is my first time using Matplotlib. I have a series of latitude and longitude co-ordinates in two lists, and I want to represent these in a meaningful manner. I would not like to use Basemap for several reasons.

lat = ['35.905333', '35.896389', '35.901281', '35.860491', '35.807607', '35.832267', '35.882414', '35.983794', '35.974463', '35.930951']

long = ['14.471970', '14.477780', '14.518173', '14.572245', '14.535320', '14.455894', '14.373217', '14.336096', '14.351006', '14.401137']

I am trying to represent these in a meaningful manner using Matplotlib.

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()

plt.scatter(lat, long)

plt.show()

However my figure is as follows:

I am unable to set the axis in order to obtain a meaningful representation of these coordinates. How can this be done? What am I doing wrong?

I am looking for something like this:

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt



N = 50

x = np.random.rand(N)

y = np.random.rand(N)



plt.scatter(x, y)

plt.show()

I get the expected outcome.

I have also tried to plot on a cartesian coordinate system.

EDIT:

As per the comment below:

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()

plt.scatter(lat, long)

plt.axis('square')

plt.show()

As mentioned in the comment, change the type to float:

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt



lat = np.array(['35.905333', '35.896389', '35.901281', '35.860491', '35.807607', 

'35.832267', '35.882414', '35.983794', '35.974463', '35.930951'], dtype=float)

long = np.array(['14.471970', '14.477780', '14.518173', '14.572245', '14.535320', 

'14.455894', '14.373217', '14.336096', '14.351006', '14.401137'], dtype=float)



fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 6))

ax.scatter(lat, long)

# ax.axis('equal')

plt.show()