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Re: Mapping Functionality in IDL 8.1 [message #75732 is a reply to message #75730]

Wed, 13 April 2011 06:33

Kenneth P. Bowman
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In article <MPG.280e90ee68f44fe29896fc@news.giganews.com>,
David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:

> The biggest problem I see with the Map function is that
> ITTVIS continues to insist that people want to warp an
> image onto a map projection. I've spent a number
> of years working professionally with people who did map
> projections for a living, and I have never once known
> anyone who wanted to do this. Everyone I know HAS an
> image (which they emphatically do NOT want to warp!),
> and they want to fit a map projection onto that.

The need to warp an image to a map projection may be more common
than you think. GOES images are a good example. We often have
gridded data that are in longitude-latitude coordinates. These are
easy to map (image or contour) using most projections. It can be
very useful to underlay a GOES image on the map projection.
MAP_PATCH handles that problem pretty well.

Ken Bowman

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