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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1862#issuecomment-362089951,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1862,362089951,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM2MjA4OTk1MQ==,244887,2018-01-31T22:17:48Z,2018-01-31T22:17:48Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"A max_spacing argument sounds interesting, but definitely makes me think I need to meditate for awhile on the scope of raised issue. A basic semantic distinction of importance here is where the coordinates are ""point like"", or represent the centers of intervals of some volume or something else entirely (e.g., in the case of non-interval or float data). Depending on what they represent you might want to plot one thing or another. ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,292054887
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1862#issuecomment-361111273,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1862,361111273,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM2MTExMTI3Mw==,244887,2018-01-29T00:32:32Z,2018-01-29T00:33:35Z,CONTRIBUTOR,">Without coordinate values in between, what should xarray assume for the intermediate values?
I guess I had imagined it would not try to plot those intermediate values.
I think the behavior makes sense in 1d (pandas does the same linear interpolation I think)
```
xrYsum = xrAB.sum(dim = 'x')
xrYsum.plot()
```
but in 2d it seems weird. Is there are common use case where this interpolation is desirable? Perhaps its just my ignorance speaking, but it feels like the behavior violates the principle of least astonishment, especially in light of the fact that irregular grids are one of the main use cases for xarray with explicit support in the [docs]( http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/plotting.html#multidimensional-coordinates).
>Probably the simplest way to fix this is to start with an all NaN array of the appropriate size.
👍
I'd be happy to take a stab at implementing plotting that gives (by default or through an optional argument) a result equivalent to the last plot you made if you imagine xarray users would find it useful.
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