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Re: West is Where!? [message #77755 is a reply to message #77660]

Tue, 20 September 2011 07:50

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Perth, Western Australia. Latitude 31ï¿½ 60'S - Longitude 115ï¿½ 50' *E*.

You're looking from the backside of the mirror trying to describe why your *absolute* reference (i.e. the lat/lon grid)
doesn't agree with your relative reference (i.e. up==north, left==west, etc.)

The plot looks o.k. to me.

cheers,

paulv

David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Can anyone explain this:
>
> data = Dist(360, 180)
> i = Image(data, Limit=[-90,0,90,360], grid_units=2, $
> image_dimensions=[360,180], image_location=[0,-90], $
> margin=0.1, map_projection='orthographic')
> m = mapcontinents()
>
> I always learned that if North was at the top of the map,
> West would be to the right and East would be to the left.
> Is this, uh, opposite of that!?
>
> Is this because we can't specify longitude as
> 0 to 360, like most of the rest of the world
> outside the US? If that's the case, why don't
> we get an error message? Is it possible to label
> these lines of longitude with values from 0 to 360?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>

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		West is Where!? By: David Fanning on Mon, 19 September 2011 21:14
		Re: West is Where!? By: Vincent Sarago on Tue, 20 September 2011 08:35
		Re: West is Where!? By: David Fanning on Tue, 20 September 2011 08:00
		Re: West is Where!? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 20 September 2011 07:50
		Re: West is Where!? By: Vincent Sarago on Tue, 20 September 2011 02:36

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