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Re: Map Projection Bug [message #64818 is a reply to message #64725]

Fri, 16 January 2009 04:00

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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completly FOSS

http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html

and not java ;)

cheers
Reimar

David Fanning schrieb:
> cgpadwick@gmail.com writes:
>
>> I see what you are getting at now. !MAP indeed does not change during
>> the successive calls. I think your theory that there is an
>> undocumented internal variable is sound. thanks for posting this,
>> I'll keep this in mind when working with the map stuff.
>
> In a discussion today among NSIDC programmers it was pointed
> out that the reason we built some of our own map re-gridding
> software was that the GCTP map projection software was
> not re-entrant. That is to say, this problem is built
> directly into the GCTP software and not necessarily something
> ITTVIS has introduced. Of course, the GCTP software
> is *extremely* old now, and anyone doing map projections
> professionally is probably using some version of the proj4
> software.
>
> My personal belief is that the map projection software
> in IDL has exceeded its shelf life. Useful map projections
> (equal area cylindrical, for example) are missing, others
> use only spherical projections, when most of the world
> is using ellipsoid projections, etc.
>
> I really hate to admit this, but more and more of IDL
> is becoming irrelevant to me. It's always good for a quick
> one-off, but there are better tools for doing particular
> jobs, and I'm becoming increasingly motivated to learn them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

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		Re: Map Projection Bug By: David Fanning on Thu, 15 January 2009 15:47
		Re: Map Projection Bug By: David Fanning on Thu, 15 January 2009 14:25
		Re: Map Projection Bug By: cgpadwick on Thu, 15 January 2009 13:21
		Re: Map Projection Bug By: pgrigis on Thu, 15 January 2009 12:43
		Re: Map Projection Bug By: MarioIncandenza on Thu, 15 January 2009 12:27
		Re: Map Projection Bug By: David Fanning on Thu, 15 January 2009 09:55
		Re: Map Projection Bug By: cgpadwick on Thu, 15 January 2009 09:01
		Re: Map Projection Bug By: R.Bauer on Fri, 16 January 2009 04:00

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