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Re: map_continents and /fill... revisted [message #76777 is a reply to message #76771]

Fri, 01 July 2011 11:57

Brian McNoldy
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On Jun 30, 2:48 am, Fabzou <fabien.mauss...@tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 06/29/2011 09:46 PM, Brian McNoldy wrote:
>
>> Other improvements on this topic would be updating political
>> boundaries, including state-drawing options for at least Mexico and
>> Canada, and allowing something like a map_ocean,/fill,color=blue.
>
> I never used IDL mapping tools, but one can find also any kind of shapes
> in various resolutions for almost anything for free in the Internet.
> Often, political boundaries are necessary to create a readable map.
>
> The obvious disadvantage is that you have to make the projection
> transformations by yourself, and this can take some time.

Thanks for the replies... I do not have 8.1, still on 8.0. Does
anyone know offhand if the issue related to filling the larger islands
is fixed by this new map database? I'm very happy to hear though that
SOMETHING was addressed when it comes to the maps; there are certainly
times that long rendering times are worth having an accurate end
result.

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		Re: map_continents and /fill... revisted By: TonyL on Sun, 03 July 2011 22:12
		Re: map_continents and /fill... revisted By: Brian McNoldy on Fri, 01 July 2011 11:57
		Re: map_continents and /fill... revisted By: Fabzou on Thu, 30 June 2011 01:48
		Re: map_continents and /fill... revisted By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 June 2011 20:11
		Re: map_continents and /fill... revisted By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 29 June 2011 14:09

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