polygon = loads(geom.ExportToWkt())
boundary = polygon.exterior
coords = np.zeros(( len(boundary.coords), 2))
for i, the_coord in enumerate(boundary.coords):
  coords[i, 0], coords[i, 1] = basemap( the_coord[0], the_coord[1] )
  result.append(Polygon(coords, facecolor = 'none', edgecolor = edge_color, linewidth = linewidth))