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Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images [message #52305 is a reply to message #52304]

Sun, 28 January 2007 13:42

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Brian Larsen writes:

> Well adding more to my own posts, interestingly the map is not in the
> right spot. Any insight here?
>
> Looking at the plot generated (sorry for the terrible colors) it is
> pretty clear that the earth is not centered at 0,0 is there some trick
> I don't know here?
>
> loadct, 11
> contour, dist(10), findgen(10)-5, findgen(10)-5, /fill, nlevels=30, /
> iso
> pos = convert_coord([-1,1], [-1,1], /data, /to_normal)
> loadct, 12
> MAP_SET,90,0,0,/ORTHOGRAPHIC,/ISOTROPIC, /CONTINENTS,/HORIZON, $
> E_continents={FILL:1, color:23}, $
> position=[pos[0,0], pos[0,1], pos[1,0], pos[1,1]], $
> /noerase, /noborder, $
> E_HORIZON={FILL:1, COLOR:100}

You set up your position wrong. It should be set like this:

position=[pos[0,0], pos[1,0], pos[0,1], pos[1,1]], $

Then, it is right where it is suppose to be. :-)

Cheers,

David
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Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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		Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images By: Brian Larsen on Mon, 29 January 2007 09:31
		Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images By: James Kuyper on Mon, 29 January 2007 09:02
		Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images By: Brian Larsen on Mon, 29 January 2007 07:58
		Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images By: David Fanning on Sun, 28 January 2007 16:39
		Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images By: Brian Larsen on Sun, 28 January 2007 14:46
		Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images By: David Fanning on Sun, 28 January 2007 13:42
		Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images By: Brian Larsen on Sun, 28 January 2007 10:55
		Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images By: Brian Larsen on Sun, 28 January 2007 10:32
		Re: Overplot nice looking globe on 2d satellite images By: David Fanning on Sun, 28 January 2007 07:47

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