| Re: Box Axes with Map Function [message #82340 is a reply to message #82205] |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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Hello,
On 12/02/12 16:53, David Fanning wrote:
> Alain writes:
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>> I think that you may also draw *only one* map projection, but by adding a second grid to the map:
>>
>> mp1 = map('Equirectangular', CENTER_LONGITUDE=180, $
>> POSITION=[0.1,0.1,0.90,0.75], $
>> LABEL_POSITION = 0, BOX_AXES=1, $
>> GRID_LATITUDE = 30, GRID_LONGITUDE = 45, $
>> ASPECT_RATIO=0, LIMIT=[-89.99, 0, 89.99, 360])
>> mp1['Latitudes'].label_angle=90
>> mp1['Longitudes'].label_angle=0
>>
>> grid = MAPGRID( $
>> LONGITUDE_MIN=0, LONGITUDE_MAX=360, $
>> LATITUDE_MIN=-90, LATITUDE_MAX=90, $
>> GRID_LONGITUDE=45, GRID_LATITUDE=30, $
>> LABEL_POSITION=1)
>> foreach g,grid.latitudes do g.label_angle=270
>> foreach g,grid.longitudes do g.label_angle=0
>
> I'm detecting a pattern here with function graphics.
> I try something and can't get it to work. I ask for
> help. No one helps me. I muck around for several weeks
> and finally cobble something together that works.
> I write an article to save everyone else the trouble
> of the two week muck-about, and within seconds someone
> writes in with the correct answer!
If it makes you feel any better, I don't see how Alain's answer is any
more "correct" compared to yours.
My take away from this: you have to jump through a bunch of arcane hoops
to get a result that previously was simple to achieve.
Reminds me of when I was talking with a Qantas pilot many years ago -
he'd been flying the latest, greatest 747's and was telling me about the
continual training and re-qualification he had to go through. his take
was something like "If they want me to jump through all those hoops to
fly those planes, that's fine with me".
This function graphics example is equivalent to all that hoop jumping,
but with the reward being the beat up two-seat cessna at the local
municipal airport.
> I guess I should probably think about writing the
> articles sooner. :-(
Additionally, it also been my experience with various OO languages (even
IDL pre-OO-ish-ness) that there are several ways to achieve the same
thing. What ends up being the idiomatic example can take a while to
determine as the community cogitates over the issue.
cheers,
paulv
p.s. I'm a little bit down on my Function Graphics boosterism because
lately I've had to plot many spectral and interfergram plots consisting
of 2^19 points. My original DG code (using my own zooming widget) does
it in a second or two - and I can zoom in and redisplay quickly at will
inspecting the data. The FG replacement? Fuhgeddaboutit.
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