Mapping Toolbox

Map Appearance and Interaction
Table 9-8 Annotation

Function	Description
clabelm	Map contour labeling.
clegendm	Add legend labels to map contour plot.
cmapui	A GUI to generate colormaps by picking colors
contourcmap	Contour-like color jumps on surface objects
demcmap	Generation of color maps.
framem	Toggle display of map frame.
gridm	Grid lines projected on map axes.
lcolorbar	Labeled colorbar.
mdistort	Displays contours of constant distortion on a map.
mlabel	Meridian labels projected on map axes.
mlabelzero22pi	Display longitude labels in the range of 0 to 360 degrees
northarrow	Add graphic element pointing to North Pole
plabel	Parallel labels projected on map axes.
polcmap	Colormap for political maps.
scaleruler	Add or modify graphic scale.
textm	Text annotation projected onto map axes.

Table 9-9 Interaction

Function	Description
cmapui	A GUI to generate colormaps by picking colors
gcpmap	Get current mouse point from map.
gtextm	Mouse placement of text on map.
scircleg	Interactive small circles.
sectorg	Interactive sectors of small circles.
trackg	Interactive tracks.
inputm	Latitude and longitude selected by mouse.

Table 9-10 Appearance Control

Function	Description
axesscale	Resize axes for equivalent scale.
camtargm	Camera target from geographic coordinates.
camposm	Camera position from geographic coordinates.
camupm	Camera UpVector from geographic coordinates.
daspectm	Figure DataAspectRatio property for a map.
paperscale	Figure paper size for a given map scale.
previewmap	View map at printed size.
rotatetext	Rotate text to the projected graticule.
tightmap	Remove whitespace around a map.
trimcart	Trim graphic objects to the map frame.

Table 9-11 Object Display

Function	Description
clma	Clear current map axes.
clmo	Clear specified map graphics object.
hidem	Hide specified map graphic objects.
mobjects	Manipulate object sets displayed on map axes.
showaxes	Toggle display of Cartesian MATLAB axes.
showm	Show specified graphic objects.

Table 9-12 Property Manipulation

Function	Description
cart2grn	Greenwich coordinates of displayed map object.
getm	Get map object properties.
handlem	Handle of displayed map objects.
makemapped	Make an object a mapped object.
namem	Names of displayed graphics objects.
restack	Restacks objects within the axes.
setm	Set and modify map properties.
tagm	Assign names to graphics objects using tag property.
zdatam	Adjust z plane of displayed map objects.

Table 9-13 Geographic Data Structures

Function	Description
displaym	Project entries of geographic data structure.
extractm	Extract vector data from geographic data structure.
mlayers	Manipulate map layers defined with structure data.

Mapping Reference

Geographic Computation