comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: Annotations of grid in map

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: Annotations of grid in map_set

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Annotations of grid in map_set [message #66176]

Thu, 23 April 2009 07:07

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Klemens writes:

> I don't see more options in map_grid than in map_set to tackle this
> problem. Even if the annotation baseline is left or right justified by
> the alignment keyword, there is not an appropriate distance to the
> gridlines to look nice. This seems to be a problem when the plot
> position is calculated in the IDL routine.

Well, MAP_GRID allows you to specify exactly where the labels
go with LATLAB and LONLAB. Seems to me you could just position
the labels where you want them to go. Since you can do this
independently of the actual grid lines, this seems like the
perfect solution. Have you tried this?

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: Annotations of grid in map_set By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 April 2009 07:07
		Re: Annotations of grid in map_set By: Klemens on Thu, 23 April 2009 07:01
		Re: Annotations of grid in map_set By: David Fanning on Thu, 23 April 2009 06:46

Previous Topic:	Annotations of grid in map_set
Next Topic:	Re: match_2d

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Fri Oct 10 07:45:54 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 1.76172 seconds