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Re: mapcontinents with /hires option failing [message #83317]

Fri, 22 February 2013 10:00

PMan
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On Friday, February 22, 2013 9:28:21 AM UTC-5, Paul Mallas wrote:
> I have found a problem with mapcontinents using the /hires option (running IDL 8.2.2 on Windows 7 64 bit)
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> I seem to recall it working fine before if prior IDL versions, so I am not sure if it actually a bug in the code or perhaps the data is just corrupted in the location where I am looking (like the vertices are in the wrong order in a shapefile and the order determines the what is inside the shape and what is outside). But it appears that the for this case, the continent is mapped incorrectly and the Mediterranean Sea is mapped as land. See the example below:
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> pro mapTest
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> compile_opt idl2
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> map1 = MAP('Geographic', $
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> LIMIT=[35, -6 , 37 , -4], $
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> FILL_COLOR='light_blue', $
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> WINDOW_TITLE='Straits of Gibraltar')
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> grid1 = map1.MAPGRID
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> grid1.LINESTYLE = 'dotted'
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> grid1.LABEL_SHOW = 0
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> m1 = MAPCONTINENTS(FILL_COLOR='beige')
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> wait, 3
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> m1 = MAPCONTINENTS(FILL_COLOR='green', /hires)
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> end

David, thanks for the taking a look. Chris, thanks for the tip.

Regards,
Paul

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		Re: mapcontinents with /hires option failing By: PMan on Fri, 22 February 2013 10:00
		Re: mapcontinents with /hires option failing By: David Fanning on Fri, 22 February 2013 09:51
		Re: mapcontinents with /hires option failing By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Fri, 22 February 2013 09:37
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		Re: mapcontinents with /hires option failing By: David Fanning on Fri, 22 February 2013 06:41

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