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clegendm

Add legend labels to map contour display

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Syntax

clegendm(C,h)
clegendm(C,h,loc)
clegendm(___,unitstr)
clegendm(___,labels)
hl = clegendm(___)

Description

clegendm(C,h) adds a legend specifying the contour line heights, C, to the current map contour plot, h.

clegendm(C,h,loc) places the legend in a specified location.

clegendm(___,unitstr) appends a string unitstr to each entry in the legend.

example

clegendm(___,labels) uses the text specified in labels to label the legend.

hl = clegendm(___) returns the handle to the legend object created.

Examples

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Open Live Script

Load elevation raster data and a geographic cells reference object. Display the data using a contour plot on a world map. Then, create a legend in the lower-right corner of the map. Specify the contour elevations as meters.

load topo60c
worldmap('world')
[c,h] = contourm(topo60c,topo60cR,-6000:1500:6000);
clegendm(c,h,4,'m')

Figure contains an axes object. The hidden axes object contains 25 objects of type line, patch, text.

Input Arguments

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Contour matrix, specified as a matrix with two rows. The first row represents longitude data and the second row represents latitude data. You can create a contour matrix by using contourm, contour3m, or contourfm.

Handle to the contour patches displayed on the current axes, returned as an hggroup. You can get a handle to contour patches by using contourm, contour3m, or contourfm.

Location to place legend, specified as one of the following integers.

ValuePlacement
0

Automatic placement (default)

1

Upper right corner

2

Upper left corner

3

Lower left corner

4

Lower right corner

-1

To the right of the plot

Text to append to each entry in the legend, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Labels in the legend, specified as a string array or cell array of character vectors. labels must have the same number of entries as the line children of h.

Output Arguments

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Handle to legend object created by the clegendm function, returned as a handle.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

See Also

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