Shaded Earth Map 1.0

DRAWEARTHSHADED Draws a shaded map of the Earth DRAWEARTHSHADED Draw a map of the earth, with a realistic set of colors. This can be used as a background for any map plot you wish. It is important to note that the shapefiles "landareas" and "usastateshi" are both used in order to generate this map. They are both relatively coarse in their resolution and do not always line up, so this may not be suitable for some situations (i.e. scales of 10s of kilometers near coastline). DRAWEARTHSHADED(USAshaded,WorldShaded,Lakes) USAshaded toggles wether or not the USA should be shaded and highlighted. WorldShaded toggles wether of not the landareas shapefile ought to be drawn. Lakes toggles wether of not the lakes should be colored in blue. By default, all 3 of these values are on. Example: figure drawEarthShaded hold on lat = 38.8904; lon = -77.0320; latlim = [-2 2] + lat; lonlim = [-2 2] + lon; plot(lon,lat,'rx') text(lon,lat,' Washington DC') axis([lonlim latlim]) if exist('lat_lon_proportions','file') lat_lon_proportions end title('Washington DC - Bad Coastline') figure drawEarthShaded(1,0,1) hold on lat = 38.8904; lon = -77.0320; latlim = [-2 2] + lat; lonlim = [-2 2] + lon; plot(lon,lat,'rx') text(lon,lat,' Washington DC') axis([lonlim latlim]) if exist('lat_lon_proportions','file') lat_lon_proportions end title('Washington DC - Better Coastline') If you want your map to be proportioned correctly, call the function lat_lon_proportions. This can be found on the File Exchange @ http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32462By: J Sullivan, May 2011

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Platforms:	Matlab
Keyword:	Drawearthshaded,  Drawn,  Figure,  Lakes,  Latlim,  Lonlim,  Values
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