It turns out that the Cartopy gridline labels are NOT tick labels, but Text objects managed by the Gridliner class. I think I'm just going to draw the grid line labels myself.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.v.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm, strange. Well, I know this works in mplot3d (we have a test for it) > > for i, tick in enumerate(ax.yaxis.get_major_ticks()): > tick.set_pad(tick.get_pad() - i * 5) > > A bit silly, but it is how you can have labels anywhere you want relative to > the ticks. > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Hearne, Mike <mhea...@usgs.gov> wrote: >> >> I couldn't find an rcParams property called "tickpad". I did find >> "xtick.major.pad", which was set to 4.0. Setting it to a negative >> value has no effect. xtick.minor.pad doesn't do anything either. >> >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.v.r...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I think you do that by setting a negative tickpad value in the rcParams. >> > >> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Hearne, Mike <mhea...@usgs.gov> wrote: >> >> >> >> Thomas - I hate to be obtuse, but did you mean to imply that the xaxis >> >> and yaxis properties of an Axes object are AxisArtist objects? >> >> IPython tells me that they are XAxis and YAxis objects. From >> >> inspecting the GitHub repo, it seems that these are child classes of >> >> the Axis object. >> >> >> >> I suppose I should ask the question addressing the problem I actually >> >> have: How do I render the tick (map) labels *inside* a Cartopy map >> >> instead of *outside*? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Caswell <tcasw...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > ax.xaxis or ax.yaxis >> >> > >> >> > axes_grid is an alternative to the default Axes/Axis classes. >> >> > >> >> > Tom >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016, 19:53 Hearne, Mike <mhea...@usgs.gov> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Python: 3.5 >> >> >> Matplotlib: 1.5.2 >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm trying to invert the tick labels on a Cartopy map, and I found >> >> >> this Matplotlib example: >> >> >> >> >> >> ax.axis[:].invert_ticklabel_direction() >> >> >> >> >> >> found here: >> >> >> http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/axisartist.html >> >> >> >> >> >> My problem is that any Axes object (or child class thereof) that >> >> >> I've >> >> >> experimented with says that the axis attribute is a *method*, not a >> >> >> sequence as I infer from the above example. >> >> >> >> >> >> How do I get the axisartists for a bog-standard Axes instance? >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> >> >> >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> >> >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> >> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
