Basemap m.fillcontinents() suppresses points on plot
<p>I'd like to change the colour of the land on a map, but doing so overrides any markers I may have on land. The m.fillcontinents() command suppresses any points of interest plotted. How do I get around this?</p>

<p>I figured out that the problem was related to the zorder settings, so somethng like:</p>

<pre><code>m.scatter(x, y, zorder=2)
m.fillcontinents(color='#997766', lake_color='#99ffff', zorder=1)
</code></pre>

<p>where setting the symbols to a higher priority (zorder=2) than the fillcontinents (zorder=1) seemed to resolve the issue.</p>

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