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>From: Robert Mullenax <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200108211939.f7LJd0118405 >I would like to print out full city names for some radar maps >I am doing. There is not enough room in the first entry >of a station table to speel out the full name of many cities. >Is there any way to use stnplot to plot the 3rd column, >the name? > >Thanks, >Robert Mullenax > Robert, The stid plotting for STNPLT is hardcoded into the $GEMPAK/source/gemlib/gg/ggsplt.f routine. The $GEMPAK/source/contrib/tdl/radmap/ggsplt2.f routine is an example of modifying the GTEXT call to plot the station name (column 3) rather than the 1st column if you wanted to make a version of gpmap that used column 3 (the cities.rad table is in the radmap directory). The radmap program is what I use to plot the maps at: http://motherlode.ucar.edu/unidata/images/nids/ An alternative for just a few strings would be tu use GPTEXT, but that is definitely clunky when you want to do a lot of stations. I did a lot of abbreviating to squeeze the station names to 8 characters in the file: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/contrib/disco_sites.tbl which I used to label maps for the discovery channel: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/chiz/gifs/FTG_N0R.gif No perfect options. Probably STNPLT should be modified in the parsing in ggsplt.f to add a "/" option in the plotting to specify what column to plot (defaulting to column 1). I'll see if I can look into that without breaking any other uses of STNPLT. Steve Chiswell
