Re: [Plplot-devel] Commit of universal coordinate transform support - request for testing

2010-04-12 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:04 PM, David MacMahon dav...@astro.berkeley.edu wrote: Sounds (and looks!) interesting, Hez! Is this global transform applied before, after, or instead of the pltr type transformations? It looks like the global transform function has the same signature as the pltr

Re: [Plplot-devel] Commit of universal coordinate transform support - request for testing

2010-04-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-04-12 09:04-0700 David MacMahon wrote: Sounds (and looks!) interesting, Hez! I have to agree. I urge everyone here to look at Hez's attachment to get a feel for the possibilities allowed by this powerful new feature. This brings up an important question we should discuss. Is it time

Re: [Plplot-devel] Commit of universal coordinate transform support - request for testing

2010-04-12 Thread David MacMahon
On Apr 12, 2010, at 9:33 , Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: The global transform is applied after the pltr-type transforms, While the signatures are the same, I'm not sure that pltr[0-2] could be used with plstransform in a simple manner. The intent of the function is closer to that of the mapform

Re: [Plplot-devel] Commit of universal coordinate transform support - request for testing

2010-04-12 Thread David MacMahon
On Apr 12, 2010, at 12:16 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: I think it is time that we take advantage of that free map data rather than limiting ourselves to just the four map data files that are currently accessible from PLplot. Ideally the availability of free GIS data (along with changes to

Re: [Plplot-devel] Commit of universal coordinate transform support - request for testing

2010-04-12 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, David MacMahon dav...@astro.berkeley.edu wrote: On Apr 12, 2010, at 9:33 , Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: The global transform is applied after the pltr-type transforms, While the signatures are the same, I'm not sure that pltr[0-2] could be used with plstransform

Re: [Plplot-devel] Commit of universal coordinate transform support - request for testing

2010-04-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-04-12 13:51-0700 David MacMahon wrote: On Apr 12, 2010, at 12:16 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: I think it is time that we take advantage of that free map data rather than limiting ourselves to just the four map data files that are currently accessible from PLplot. Ideally the availability