Hi -
Say you have variables, long, lati, with the longitude and latitude of
the cities, and cityname, a string variable with the cities. Then use
the LABEL command in a loop as follows:
label `long`, `lat`, 0, 0, 0.1, "`cityname`"
For example, I had done this in a project a while back; the file
cities.dat has information for three cities in Australia:
Column 1: LON E, Column 2: LAT N, Column 3: city name
151.12 -33.800 NorthRyde
138.58 -34.917 Adelaide
144.97 -37.817 Melbourne
Here is a script that makes a map with the city locations marked with a
polygon, and the names of the cities labeled. You can work with the
settings of the LABEL command to choose the size of the labels and
whether they are centered and so forth.
set data etopo20
shade/pal=dark_land_sea/lev=(-10000,10000,500)/x=110:170/y=-50:0 rose
! Read the city data as a delimited file
set data/skip=2/form=delim/delim=" "/var="long, lati, cityname" cities.dat
! Mark the locations
go polymark poly/line/color=red/over/nolab/nokey/pal=orange_light \
long, lati, ,diamond, 0.6
! Label the cities
repeat/range=1:`long[I=@ngd]`/name=m (let xl = long[i=`m`]; \
let yl = lati[i=`m`] ; \
let cname = cityname[i=`m`]; \
label `xl`,`yl`,0,0,0.1,"`cname`")
CORDOBA MUÑOZ wrote:
Hi ferreters!
Does anybody
knows how to display city names in a
map?
I have the
lat/lon data of each city
Thanks in
advance
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