Re: attractive base map for animation [message #81933] |
Thu, 08 November 2012 15:19 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724 Registered: August 2001
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Edward Hyer writes:
> Thanks! That was probably the most fun day of coding I've had in months! I just went ahead and had the API draw what I needed on the map. I think it's pretty awesome that you got the map graphics pulled into a cgMap() object, but I didn't end up messing with that because objects (read: because I am a Neanderthal.)
The only thing you have to know about a map object
is how to set up the map coordinate space with it:
map -> Draw
That does it! Even Neanderthals ought to be able
to figure that out. ;-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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Re: attractive base map for animation [message #81934 is a reply to message #81933] |
Thu, 08 November 2012 15:07  |
MarioIncandenza
Messages: 231 Registered: February 2005
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On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 10:51:01 AM UTC-8, Coyote wrote:
> Google Maps.
Thanks! That was probably the most fun day of coding I've had in months! I just went ahead and had the API draw what I needed on the map. I think it's pretty awesome that you got the map graphics pulled into a cgMap() object, but I didn't end up messing with that because objects (read: because I am a Neanderthal.)
Thanks,
--Edward H.
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Re: attractive base map for animation [message #81951 is a reply to message #81934] |
Tue, 06 November 2012 10:51  |
DavidF[1]
Messages: 94 Registered: April 2012
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Edward Hyer writes:
> A different sort of problem for me. I am trying to illustrate some of
> the complications of using data with an observation scale of 1E4
> meters to observe phenomena with variation at scales of 1E3 or 1E2
> meters. So instead of the rivers, continents, and sometimes states
> that I generally need for map annotation, I am looking for a basemap
> that will show urban features like freeways.
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> What do folks use for this?
Google Maps.
http://www.idlcoyote.com/map_tips/googlemap.php
Cheers,
David
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