On 2012-10-03 12:40+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > Alan, > > Certainly my take on this was that I was envisaging only using this > support for behind the scenes improvements to plmap, not reproducing > a general interface to shapelib / ogr / gdal etc. There is no point > reproducing the wheel, particularly where things like shapelib have a > pretty simple API anyway. > > I agree with Hez that all of this could be achieved already by the end > user with the existing API (helped by a new plpolygons function). However, > given we have plmap already and it adds some functionality in terms > coordinate transformations I think we should limit ourselves to better > supporting different map formats for plmap, at least for now. > > Being able to simple draw some stock map as a background for the real > figure is useful (see Phil's examples) for scientific plotting. This > is quite different though to producing high quality maps which is a > job for a GIS and not plplot. > > I think this is what you were suggsting anyway isn't it?
Yes, I agree we should concentrate for now on better support for different map formats for plmap as well as Hez's suggestions for improved general polygon plotting functions. > The idea of using raster maps as a background for a plot is > interesting. I don't see why we couldn't implement an example of this > using the current plimagefr function anyway. This could be a very > pretty example of the kind of thing one can achieve with plplot. Just > needs a copyright free raster map as the backdrop. I agree this is a good idea. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
