PLMAP(3plplot)							    PLplot API							    PLMAP(3plplot)

NAME

       plmap - Plot continental outline in world coordinates.

SYNOPSIS

       plmap(mapform, type, minlong, maxlong, minlat, maxlat)

DESCRIPTION

       Plots continental outlines in world coordinates. examples/c/x19c demonstrates how to use this  function to create different projections.

       Redacted form:  General: plmap(mapform, type, minlong, maxlong, minlat, maxlat) F95, Java, Perl/PDL, Python: Not implemented?

       This function is used in example 19.

ARGUMENTS

       mapform (void (*) (PLINT, PLFLT *, PLFLT *), input)
	      A  user  supplied function to transform the coordinate  longitudes and latitudes to a plot coordinate system.   By using this trans-
	      form, we can change from a longitude,  latitude coordinate to a polar stereographic project, for	example.   Initially,  x[0]..[n-1]
	      are  the longitudes and y[0]..y[n-1]  are the corresponding latitudes.  After the call to mapform(), x[]	and y[] should be replaced
	      by the corresponding plot coordinates.   If no transform is desired, mapform can be replaced by NULL.

       type (char *, input)
	      type is a character string. The value of this parameter determines the type of background. The possible values are: "globe" --  con-
	      tinental	outlines  "usa" -- USA and state boundaries "cglobe" -- continental outlines and countries "usaglobe" -- USA, state bound-
	      aries and continental outlines

       minlong (PLFLT, input)
	      The value of the longitude on the left side of the plot.	The value of minlong must be less than	the  value  of	maxlong,  and  the
	      quantity maxlong-minlong must be less than or equal to 360.

       maxlong (PLFLT, input)
	      The value of the longitude on the right side of the plot.

       minlat (PLFLT, input)
	      The  minimum  latitude  to be plotted on the background.	 One can always use -90.0 as the boundary outside the plot window  will be
	      automatically eliminated.  However, the program will be  faster if one can reduce the size of the background plotted.

       maxlat (PLFLT, input)
	      The maximum latitudes to be plotted on the background.   One can always use 90.0 as the boundary outside the plot  window   will	be
	      automatically eliminated.

AUTHORS

       Geoffrey  Furnish  and  Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot.  This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook source of the
       PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO

       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.

								   August, 2012 						    PLMAP(3plplot)