Basemap uses deprecated methods #7808
Description
I'm not sure who maintains basemap, or where the development takes place, but hopefully this gets routed to someone who knows.
With the current master branch of matplotlib and a fresh install of basemap-1.0.7, I trigger the following deprecation warnings:
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
m = Basemap()
m.fillcontinents()
#/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py:1767: MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: The get_axis_bgcolor function was deprecated in version 2.0. Use get_facecolor instead.
# axisbgc = ax.get_axis_bgcolor()
m.scatter([1,2], [3,4])
#/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py:3222: MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: The ishold function was deprecated in version 2.0.
# b = ax.ishold()
#/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/__init__.py:3231: MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: axes.hold is deprecated.
# See the API Changes document (http://matplotlib.org/api/api_changes.html)
# for more details.
# ax.hold(b)