workaround for issue 123

Author: Jeff Whitaker

lib/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py

@@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ def _readboundarydata(self,name,as_polygons=False):
                         xd = (bx[1:]-bx[0:-1])**2
                         yd = (by[1:]-by[0:-1])**2
                         dist = np.sqrt(xd+yd)
-                        split = dist > 0.5*(self.xmax-self.xmin)
+                        split = dist > 0.1*(self.xmax-self.xmin)
                         if np.sum(split) and self.projection not in _cylproj:
                             ind = (np.compress(split,np.squeeze(split*np.indices(xd.shape)))+1).tolist()
                             iprev = 0