accuracy of map computations Adams, O. S. Adams, Oscar Sherman Airy, George Airy Minimum Error Azimuthal projection aitoff Aitoff, David Aitoff projection Aitoff projection Albers Equal-Area Conic projection Albers, Heinrich Christian almanac almanac American Geographical Society American Polyconic projection angl2str angle strings converting to numbers angle units convention for navigation functions converting between formats description of formats angledim angledim angles converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units normalizing range normalizing range annotation antipode antipode Apian, Peter apianus Apianus II projection arcgridread areaint areaint areamat areamat areaquad areaquad ASCII file converting delimiters to NaNs reading aspect defined auxiliary sphere calculating radius avhrrgoode avhrrlambert axes axes, Cartesian See Cartesian axes axes2ecc axes2ecc axesm axesm axesm axesm axesmui axesscale axesscale azimuth azimuth azimuth between track waypoints calculating calculating defined finding cross fix position in projected coordinates azimuthal projection Babinet projection Balthasart Cylindrical projection Balthasart Cylindrical projection balthsrt Bartholomew, John base projection bearing See azimuth See azimuth behrmann Behrmann Cylindrical projection Behrmann Cylindrical projection Behrmann Cylindrical projection Behrmann, Walter Bienewitz Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira projection Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira projection bonne Bonne projection Bonne, Rigobert Bordone Oval projection Braun braun Braun Perspective Cylindrical projection Braun Perspective Cylindrical projection Braun Perspective Cylindrical projection breusing Breusing, F. A. Arthur Breusing Harmonic Mean projection bries Briesemeister projection Briesemeister projection Briesemeister, William bsam bsam BSAM projection buffer zone defined bufferm bufferm camposm camtargm camupm cart2grn Cartesian axes displaying cassini Cassini Cylindrical projection Cassini de Thury, César François Cassini projection ccylin Central Cylindrical projection Central Cylindrical projection Central projection changem Ch'ien Lo-Chih choropleth maps example circcirc circles See great circles See small circles clabelm clegendm Click-and-Drag property editor clipdata clma clmo clmo clrmenu cmapui cmapui coast MAT-file collig Collignon, Édouard Collignon projection colorbar labeled colorm colormap annotating creating for digital elevation map creating for political data creating for surface contour maps colormap menu in figure window colormaps digital elevation map digital elevation map regular data grid shaded relief map colorui combinations combntns comet3m comet3m cometm cometm cometm Conic projection conic projection Conical Orthomorphic projection contour map adding legend creating creating labeling contour3m contour3m contourcmap contourcmap contourfm contourm contourm conversion angle units angle units angle units angle units angle units angle units angle units ASCII file delimiters coordinate types coordinate types coordinate types distance to string distance units distance units distance units distance units distance units distance units DMS to matrix elements ellipsoid parameters ellipsoid parameters ellipsoid parameters ellipsoid parameters ellipsoid parameters geographic coordinates to matrix coordinates great circles to small circles hms to matrix elements matrix coordinates to geographic coordinates matrix elements to DMS matrix elements to HMS time to string time units time units time units time units time units time units time units convertlat coordinate system transforming coordinate transformations matrix data vector data coordinates converting from geographic to matrix converting from matrix to geographic converting types converting types converting types selecting with mouse Cossin, Jean craster Craster, John Evelyn Edmund Craster Parabolic projection cross fix positions crossfix current point from map axes cylindrical projection daspectm data grid See also regular data grids data grids coloring defined displaying gradient graticules logical maps See also general data grids dcwdata dcwgaz dcwread dcwrhead de l'Isle, Nicolas dead reckoning dead reckoning calculating positions rules of Deetz, Charles H. defaultm deg2dm deg2dms deg2km deg2km deg2nm deg2nm deg2rad deg2rad deg2sm delaunay demcmap demcmap demcmap demdataui demdataui departure departure departure Die Rechteckige Plattkarte Digital Chart of the World (DCW) reading files reading gazette reading headers reading selected data digital elevation map, colormap digital elevation maps colormap for line of sight in reading data interactively texture mapping color data onto digital elevation maps (DEMs) defined displaying light objects light objects lighted surfaces lighted surfaces lines lines lines lines patches patches patches patches patches surfaces surfaces surfaces surfaces surfaces surfaces text text text displaym dist2str distance distance distance converting to string converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units See also surface distance distance units convention for navigation functions converting between formats description of formats distdim distdim distortcalc DMS notation dms2deg dms2deg dms2dm dms2mat dms2rad dms2rad Douglas-Peucker algorithm dreckon dreckon dreckon drift correction driftcorr driftcorr driftvel driftvel dted dteds Earth default geoid ellipsoid models See almanac eastof ecc2flat ecc2n eccentricity Eckert I projection Eckert II projection Eckert III projection Eckert IV projection Eckert, Max Eckert, Max Eckert, Max Eckert, Max Eckert, Max Eckert, Max Eckert V projection Eckert V projection Eckert VI projection eckert1 eckert2 eckert3 eckert4 eckert5 eckert6 Edwards, Trystan egm96geoid Egyptians Egyptians Egyptians elevation elevation defined measuring elevation map See digital elevation map ellipse1 ellipsoid approximating planetary geoid See almanac as a geoid model converting parameters models for Earth models for planets radius of curvature ellipsoid parameters conversion conversion conversion conversion converting Elliptical projection encodem epsm eqa2grn eqa2grn eqaazim eqaconic eqacylin eqdazim eqdconic eqdcylin Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Equidistant Azimuthal projection Equidistant Azimuthal projection Equidistant Azimuthal projection Equidistant Azimuthal projection Equidistant Conic projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equidistant Cylindrical projection Equirectangular projection Equirectangular projection Erastosthenes etopo5 ETOPO5 model Etzlaub, Erhard Everett extractfield extractm Fifth Fundamental Catalog of Stars fill3m fill3m fillm fillm fillm filtering geographic data filtering geographic data filterm filterm findm findm fipsname fixing See navigational fixing See navigational fixing flat2ecc flatearthpoly flatearthpoly flatplrp flatplrq flatplrs Flat-Polar Quartic projection fournier Fournier, Georges Fournier II projection Fournier projection Fournier projection frame See map frame framem framem framem Gall Isographic projection Gall Isographic projection Gall, James Gall, James Gall Orthographic projection Gall Orthographic projection Gall projection Gall Stereographic projection Gall Stereographic projection Gauss-Krüger gc2sc gcm gcpmap gcwaypts gcwaypts gcwaypts gcxgc gcxgc gcxsc gcxsc general data grid projecting projecting general data grids displaying displaying image and surface coloring displaying light shading displaying shaded relief general matrix map projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting shaded relief geographic data structure creating input to mlayers defined displaying extracting data interacting with objects Version 1 Version 2 geographic mean geographic points mean standard deviation standard distance geographic standard deviation geographic statistics calculating geographic mean calculating geographic standard deviation equal-area coordinate system equirectangular binning filtering data sets filtering data sets histograms geoid availability for planets converting ellipsoid parameters defined ellipsoid approximation ellipsoid models for Earth importance of geoid vector planets See almanac geoloc2grid geolocated grids format geoshow geospatial data access DCW data DCW gazette DCW headers ETOPO5 model Fifth Fundamental Catalog of Stars TIGER ArcInfo files TIGER FIPS name files TIGER MIF files TIGER/Line data USGS DEM data USGS DEM data USGS DEM filenames geospatial data accessa DCW data geospatial data formats reading and writing geostruct1 geostruct2 geotiff2mstruct geotiffinfo geotiffread getm getm getm getseeds getworldfilename giso Globe globe Globe projection globe projection globedem globedems Gnomic projection gnomonic Gnomonic projection goode Goode Homolosine projection Goode Homolosine projection Goode, J. Paul gortho gradient defined gradientm gradientm graphic scale graticule choosing resolution choosing resolution defined defined graticule mesh great circle track calculating from one point calculating from two points displaying great circles approximating tracks with rhumb lines calculating points of converting to small circles defined interactive intersection intersection with small circles Great Soviet World Atlas Greeks Greeks grepfields grid See map grid grid2image gridm grn2eqa grn2eqa gshhs gstereo gtextm gtopo30 gtopo30s Guide property editor hammer Hammer projection Hammer projection Hammer projection Hammer-Aitoff projection handlem handlem handlem Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph hatano Hatano Asymmetrical Equal-Area projection Hatano, Masataka help getting more hidem hidem hidem hista histogram equal area equirectangular histograms histr histr HMS notation HMS notation hms2hm hms2hr hms2mat hms2sec Homolographic projection Homolosine projection Hondius, Jodocus hours notation hours notation hr2hm hr2hms hr2sec hypsometric tints imbedm ind2rgb8 inputm inputm inputm Inset maps controlling scale creating interplat interplat interplon interplon interpm interpm interpm interpolation along a path latitude and longitude latitude and longitude latitude given longitude longitude given latitude intersection great circles great circles and small circles object sets rhumb lines small circles intrplat intrplon ismap ismapped ispolycw Jupiter See almanac Kavraisky V projection Kavraisky, V. V. Kavraisky, V. V. Kavraisky VI projection kavrsky5 kavrsky6 km2deg km2nm km2rad km2sm korea DEM La Carte Parallélogrammatique lambcyln lambert Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection Lambert Conformal Conic projection Lambert Equal-Area Azimuthal projection Lambert Equal-Area Conic projection Lambert Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Lambert Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Lambert Equal-Area Cylindrical projection Lambert, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Johann Heinrich latitude defined latitude and longitude finding corresponding time zone finding for map entries interpolation interpolation interpolation interpolation limits of regular data grid limits of regular matrix map See also map frame, setting limits See also map limits latlon2pix lcolorbar lcolorbar legs legs legs legs course and distance of defined light object light objects lightmui manipulating lightm lightm lightm lightmui limitm limitm limitm line objects line objects line objects line objects displaying line simplification linecirc linem linem logical maps defined longitude converting between ranges defined Lorgna projection los2 los2 loximuth Loximuthal projection loxodromes See rhumb lines ltln2val ltln2val majaxis makemapped makemapped makerefmat makesymbolspec map creating definition deleting precision See map axes map axes accessing properties accessing properties accessing properties default values defining map projection defining map projection inset maps modifying properties resetting to default properties retrieving map structure retrieving properties setting properties setting properties setting properties testing map data extracting from data structures filtering querying See also matrix data See also vector data map frame adjusting for a new projection controlling appearance defined displaying displaying modifying properties resetting altitude setting limits setting properties setting properties setting properties trimming objects to map grid controlling appearance defined displaying displaying modifying properties resetting altitude setting properties setting properties setting properties map grid labels alternate displaying displaying modifying properties setting properties setting properties map layers map legend deprecated term map limits adjusting for a new projection setting map origin See origin map projection changing defining defining identification strings names map projections area azimuthal base choosing computations conformality conic cylindrical defined defined developable surface distance distortion distortion equidistance equivalence globe polyconic pseudocylindrical shape switching table of properties two-dimensional vs. three-dimensional vectors map scale between axes printing map2pix mapbbox maplegend variable maplist mapoutline mapped objects converting from standard objects manipulating by name trimming to map frame mapprofile mapprofile maps maps printing mapshow maptool maptrim maptriml maptriml maptrimp maptrimp maptrims mapview Marinus of Tyre Marinus of Tyre Mars See almanac maskm mat2dms mat2dms mat2hms mat2hms mat2hms MATLAB graphics projecting matrix data displaying displaying displaying displaying displaying displaying displaying as lighted displaying as lighted displaying as shaded relief displaying as shaded relief resizing trimming trimming matrix map constructing graticule mesh encoding regions NaNs ones replacing elements resizing sparse zeros zeros McBryde, F. Webster McBryde, F. Webster McBryde, F. Webster McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Parabolic projection McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic projection McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Sinusoidal projection mdistort mean of geographic data mean of geographic points meanm meanm mercator Mercator Equal-Area projection Mercator, Gerardus Mercator, Gerardus Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercator projection Mercury See almanac meridian labels alternate MeridianLabel use of meridians controlling display defined mesh See graticule mesh meshgrat meshgrat meshgrat use of meshlsrm meshlsrm meshm meshm mfwdtran miller Miller Cylindrical projection Miller, Osborn Maitland minaxis minaxis minvtran mlabel mlabelzero22pi mlayers mlayers MLineException use of MLineLimit use of mobjects modsine mollweid Mollweide, Carl B. Mollweide projection Mollweide projection Moon See almanac mouse interaction with displayed maps mouse interactions defining small circles placing text processing button down callbacks selecting coordinates Murdoch I Conic projection Murdoch III Minimum Error Conic projection Murdoch, Patrick Murdoch, Patrick murdoch1 murdoch3 n2ecc namem namem nanclip nanm nanm NaNs matrix map National Geographic Society navfix navfix navfix navigation angular conventions calculating course and distance calculating dead reckoning positions calculating waypoints connecting waypoints distance conventions fixing position fixing position retrieving time zone for longitude retrieving time zone for longitude speed conventions navigational fixing navigational fixing navigational fixing navigational track calculating segments between waypoints navigational tracks connecting waypoints displaying format Neptune See almanac neworig neworig newpole newpole newpole nm2deg nm2km nm2rad nm2sm Nordic projection normal aspect north arrows northarrow npi2pi npi2pi objects assigning tag assigning tag deleting deleting displaying displaying editing properties of hiding hiding interacting modifying zdata modifying zdata retrieving handle retrieving handle retrieving name testing if mapped oblique aspect onem onem ones matrix map Ordinary Polyconic projection org2pol orientation projection vector origin computing computing interactive modification See orientation vector transformation origin vector See also projection aspect originui ortho Orthographic projection Orthographic projection Orthographic projection Orthophanic projection panzoom panzoom paperscale paperscale parallel labels ParallelLabel use of parallels controlling display defined parallelui patch drawing functions differences between patch maps functions for patch objects patch objects patch objects patch objects displaying patches projecting patchesm patchesm patchesm patchm patchm patchm pcarree pcolorm pcolorm Peters projection piloting See navigational fixing pix2latlon pix2map pixcenters plabel planetary data Plate Carrée projection Plate Carrée projection Plate Carrée projection Plate Carrée projection Plate Carrée projection plot3m plot3m plotm plotm plotm Pluto See almanac polcmap polcmap pole transformation poltical maps coloring poly2ccw poly2cw poly2fv polybool polybool polybool polycon Polyconic projection polyconic projection polycut polygon Boolean operations buffer zones displaying as line object displaying as patch object eliminating date line crossing extracting segments intersection points surface area polygon maps functions for polygon surface area polyjoin polyjoin polymerge polymerge polysplit polysplit polyxpoly polyxpoly polyxpoly position dead reckoning reckoning Postel, Guillaume Postel projection Postel projection previewmap printing maps project project projection data data objects See map projections See map projections projection aspect normal oblique skew-oblique transverse Projection of Marinus Projection of Marinus projfwd projinv projlist property editors Click-and-Drag Guide Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemy, Claudius Putnins Putnins P4 projection Putnins P5 projection Putnins, Reinholds V. putnins5 putpole qrydata quadrangle surface area quartic Quartic Authalic projection querying map data quiver quiver3m quiver3m quiverm quiverm quiverm rad2deg rad2dm rad2dms rad2km rad2nm rad2sm radius of auxiliary sphere radius of curvature radius of planets See almanac Rand McNally range angles angles finding cross fix position raster data See matrix data raster data representation raster data representation raster map data defined raster maps See data grids rcurve readfields readfk5 reading ASCII files readmtx reckon reckon reckoning reckoning reckoning position Rectangular projection Rectangular projection reducem reducing data See vector data referencing matrix defined referencing vector refmat variable refmat2vec refvec2mat regular data grid creating colormap encoding regions latitude and longitude limits projecting regular data grids accessing elements determining limits determining size with scaling displaying displaying image and surface coloring displaying shaded relief regular matrix map calculating required matrix size encoding latitude and longitude limits projecting projecting shaded relief retrieving values seeds for encoding surface area transforming to new coordinate system origin trimming resizem restack rhumb line track calculating from one point calculating from two points displaying rhumb lines approximating great circle tracks with calculating points defined rhumb lines intersection rhxrh rhxrh robinson Robinson, Arthur H. Robinson projection rootlayr rotatem rotatem rotatetext rounding roundn rsphere Ruysch, Johannes Sanson-Flamsteed projection satbath Saturn See almanac scale between axes printing scaleruler scaleruler scatterm scatterm scatterm scatterm scircle1 scircle1 scircle2 scircle2 scircleg scircleg scirclui scxsc scxsc sdtsdemread sdtsinfo sec2hm sec2hms sec2hr seconds notation seconds notation sectorg seedm selectors with shapefile data semimajor axis semiminor axis setltln setltln setm setm setm setm setm setpostn setpostn shaded relief map constructing cdata constructing colormap general matrix map regular matrix map shaded relief maps shaderel shapeinfo shaperead shaperead data selectors showaxes showm showm showm Siemon, Karl Siemon, Karl Simple Conic projection Simple Cylindrical projection simplifying data See vector data sinusoid Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection Sinusoidal projection sizem sizem skew-oblique aspect slope defined sm2deg sm2km sm2nm sm2rad small circles calculating calculating defined defining with mouse displaying interactive intersection intersection with great circles smoothlong spcread speed units format for navigation functions spzerom spzerom Stab Stabius, Johannes Stab-Werner projection standard deviation of geographic data standard deviation of geographic points standard distance of geographic points stdist stdist stdm stdm stem plot example stem3m stem3m stem3m stereo Stereographic projection Stereographic projection Stereographic projection str2angle str2angle Sun See almanac surface area accessing from almanac measuring polygons planets See almanac polygon quadrangle regular matrix map surface distance along a parallel See departure between track waypoints between two points calculating surface objects constructing graticule mesh displaying projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting projecting lighted projecting lighted surfacem surfacem surfdist surflm surflm surflm surflsrm surflsrm surfm surfm Sylvanus, Bernardus symbol plot example symbolspec creating with makesymbolspec definition Glossary-15 example of defining using polcmap with geoshow tagm tagm tbase text mouse placement projecting projecting textm textm texture mapping onto digital elevation maps tgrline Thales Thomas, Paul D. Thomas, Paul D. Thomas, Paul D. TIGER data ArcInfo files MIF files reading FIPS name files TIGER/Line data tigermif tigerp tightmap tightmap time converting to matrix elements converting to string converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units converting units time units conventions for navigation converting between formats converting between formats description of formats description of formats time zone determining from longitude time zones navigational time2str time2str timedim timedim timedim timezone timezone timezone tissot tissot tissot tissot indicatrices projecting Tissot Modified Sinusoidal projection Tissot, N. A. Tobler, Waldo R. topo DEM topographical maps See digital elevation maps (DEMs) track track track waypoints azimuth distance track1 track1 track2 track2 track2 trackg trackg tracks See great circles See rhumb lines trackui transformation of coordinate system See coordinate transformation transverse aspect Transverse Mercator projection transverse Mercator projection trimcart trimcart trimdata trimming data trisurf trystan Trystan Edwards Cylindrical projection Trystan Edwards Cylindrical projection Tunhuang star chart U.S. Army uimaptbx undoclip undotrim units converting See conversion testing for valid abbreviations testing for valid strings unitsratio example unitstr Universal Polar Stereographic projection Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) projection Universal Transverse Mercator projection Universal Transverse Mercator projection updategeostruct ups UPS projection Uranus See almanac usamap USGS DEM data reading files reading files returning filenames usgs24kdem usgsdem usgsdems UTM ellipsoid for zone utm utm UTM projection UTM projection utmgeoid utmzone Van der Grinten, Alphons J. Van der Grinten I projection Van der Grinten projection vec2mtx vector data calculating intersections converting to matrix format displaying as lines displaying as lines displaying as lines displaying as lines displaying as patches displaying as patches displaying as patches displaying as patches displaying as patches geographic interpolation reducing simplifying/reducing trimming trimming trimming data to a region vector map data defined vector maps delineation of objects in displaying as lines displaying as patches vectors projected directions Venus See almanac vertical exaggeration daspectm Vertical Perspective Azimuthal projection vfwdtran vfwdtran vfwdtran vgrint1 viewshed viewshed viewshed defined vinvtran vmap0data vmap0read vmap0rhead vmap0ui volume of planets See almanac von Hammer, H. H. Ernst vperspec Wagner I projection Wagner IV projection Wagner, Karlheinz Wagner, Karlheinz wagner4 waypoints calculating calculating connecting defined selecting with mouse See also track waypoints werner Werner, Johannes Werner projection Werner projection westof wetch Wetch Cylindrical projection Wetch, J. Wetch projection wiechel Wiechel, H. Wiechel projection winkel Winkel I projection Winkel, Oswald worldfileread worldfilewrite worldmap Wright, Edward Wright projection Young, A. E. zdatam zdatam Zenithal Equal-Area projection Zenithal Equidistant projection Zenithal Equivalent projection Zenithal projection Zenithal projection zero22pi zero22pi zerom zerom zeros creating matrix map creating sparse matrix map zooming in and out of map displays