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Re: latiude/ longitude legend outside the map [message #29347]

Wed, 13 February 2002 07:40

Liam E. Gumley
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Registered: January 2000

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Marco Trommler wrote:
> I would like to generate a Map with grid lines and a legend with the values
> of the latitude or longitude of the grid lines outside of the image (aligned
> to the map border)
>
> WINDOW, ...
> MAP_SET .....,,/cylindrical, xmargin=3,ymargin=3
> MAP_GRID, LABEL=2, LATDEL=5, LONDEL=10, LONLAB=reg.latmin[r]
>
> prints the values of the longitude on the min. latitude grid line of my map
> (at the lower border but inside the map)
>
> MAP_GRID, LABEL=2, LATDEL=5, LONDEL=10, LONLAB=reg.latmin[r]-0.5
>
> should print the values with space 0.5 under the lowest border, but the
> program doesn't make it..... Where is the mistake???

Try using the MAP_GRID keyword BOX_AXES:

map_set, 43, -89.5, scale=10e6, $
/usa, xmargin=[3, 3], ymargin=[3,3]
map_grid, latdel=2, londel=2, charsize=0.75, /box_axes

Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/

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		Re: latiude/ longitude legend outside the map By: Liam E. Gumley on Wed, 13 February 2002 07:40
		Re: latiude/ longitude legend outside the map By: David Fanning on Wed, 13 February 2002 07:35
		Re: latiude/ longitude legend outside the map By: K. Bowman on Wed, 13 February 2002 06:50
		Re: latiude/ longitude legend outside the map By: David Fanning on Wed, 13 February 2002 06:10

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