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 avail

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 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 in a simple man

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

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 map

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 t

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 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" transform func

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

2010-04-12 Thread David MacMahon
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" transform functions so that the predefined pltr1, pltr2, etc. functions can b