<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Tao,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It looks like you have three plot elements you are asking about.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">[1]</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The first is an arrow pointing up to show North. We don&#39;t have the exact type of arrow that you indicated, but you can draw any character from any one of our font tables on a plot using gsn_add_text.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">See here for a list of fonts:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/font_tables.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/font_tables.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Click on any of them, like &quot;math-symbols&quot;, &quot;text-symbols&quot;, or &quot;weather1&quot; and you may see an arrow you like. Once you find one, let&#39;s say it was the &quot;-&quot; symbol in font table 34, then you can add it to your map with gsn_add_text.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">[2]</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">The second is a smaller map drawn on top of a bigger map.  You can simply create two maps, using vpXXX resources to make the second one much smaller, and to change the location of where it&#39;s drawn.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">[3]</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">The third element is similar to a labelbar, but the one major difference is that the boxes are not equal in size. Unfortunately, there&#39;s no automatic way to draw a legend/labelbar like this that represents distance. You can certainly create one by hand, but this is going to be rather tedious.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I&#39;ve attached a script that draws the first two elements of this plot.You will need to customize this plot to get the exact results you want, but hopefully this gives you a start.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"> For the labelbar, you can try creating one yourself using gsn_create_labelbar, or gsn_add_polygon. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">See these pages for some examples:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/labelbar.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/labelbar.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/polyg.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/polyg.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Tao Lu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hakufu.asano@gmail.com" target="_blank">hakufu.asano@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello ncl-talk<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_iwlfid4j1_158f0bf77027a566" width="472" height="427"><br>​<br></div><div>Can ncl create ruler of map like above?</div><div>The parts of circled by red line are features which I would like to get.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div>Tao<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_6794772293588499063gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">******************************<wbr>************************</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">盧 涛 (ル タオ) </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">修士課程2年</span><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">〒<span lang="EN-US">112-8551 </span>東京都文京区春日<span lang="EN-US">1-13-27</span></font></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">中央大学理工学研究科都市環境学専攻</font></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">河川・水文<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">研究</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">室</span></span></span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">(山田正教授)</span></p></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">TEL: 03-3817-3406;   </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Phone: 070-2188-7509</span></p>Email1: <a href="mailto:mail%3Amet.yamos@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">hakufu.asano@gmail.com</a><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Email2: <a href="mailto:mail%3Ayamoto@civil.chuo-u.ac.jp" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">lutao@civil.chuo-u.ac.<wbr>jp</a><br style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">******************************<wbr>*************************</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">******************************</span><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial"><wbr>************************</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">Tao Lu    (M. Eng)</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Laboratory of River Engineering and Hydrology,</span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,</span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Graduate School of Science and Engineering,</span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">Chuo University</span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial"> </span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">1-13-27<span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">,Kasuga,Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo</span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">112-8551, Japan</span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">TEL: </span>03-3817-1805<font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">;   </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Phone: 070-2188-7509</span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Email1: </span><a href="mailto:mail%3Amet.yamos@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">hakufu.asano@gmail.com</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Email2: </span><a href="mailto:mail%3Ayamoto@civil.chuo-u.ac.jp" style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">lutao@civil.chuo-u.ac.<wbr>jp</a><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">******************************</span><span style="font-size:small;font-family:arial"><wbr>***********************</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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