<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Barry,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">When you have an error message you don't understand, you can either check our FAQ or our error messages page. You can find a link to both of these pages under the "Support" menu on the black bar of any NCL web page. These are the direct links:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#err_msgs">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#err_msgs</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Language/error_messages.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Language/error_messages.shtml</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">You will find a reference to this error message here:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#err_msgs_027">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/#err_msgs_027</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Whenever you add markers, text, lines, or polygons to a plot using one of the gsn_add_xxxx functions, you need to use a unique variable name. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You currently have:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot(0),lon,lat,mkres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid = gsn_add_text(wks,plot(0),cities,lon,lat,txres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot(1),lon,lat,mkres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid = gsn_add_text(wks,plot(1),cities,lon,lat,txres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot(2),lon,lat,mkres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid = gsn_add_text(wks,plot(2),cities,lon,lat,txres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot(3),lon,lat,mkres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid = gsn_add_text(wks,plot(3),cities,lon,lat,txres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">What happens is that you are reassigning markid and textid, and hence those markers and text go away. You need to make each variable different.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">You can either do something like this:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid0 = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot(0),lon,lat,mkres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid0 = gsn_add_text(wks,plot(0),cities,lon,lat,txres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid1 = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot(1),lon,lat,mkres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid1 = gsn_add_text(wks,plot(1),cities,lon,lat,txres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid2 = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot(2),lon,lat,mkres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid2 = gsn_add_text(wks,plot(2),cities,lon,lat,txres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid3 = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot(3),lon,lat,mkres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid3 = gsn_add_text(wks,plot(3),cities,lon,lat,txres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">or even better, up where you define "plot", add these lines:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace">; define number of panel plots</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> plot = new(4,graphic)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid = new(4,graphic)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid = new(4,graphic)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">and then, since you are adding the same markers and text to all four plots, you can use a loop right before you call gsn_panel:<br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> do n=0,3</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> markid(n) = gsn_add_polymarker(wks,plot(n),lon,lat,mkres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> textid(n) = gsn_add_text(wks,plot(n),cities,lon,lat,txres)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="monospace, monospace"> end do</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Barry Lynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.h.lynn@gmail.com" target="_blank">barry.h.lynn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi:</div><div><br></div><div>I have attached an ncl program that is suppose to add location dots.</div><div><br></div><div>They get added to the last map, but not the first.</div><div><br></div><div>I also want to center the time over the whole set of maps, not the first.</div><div><br></div><div>I get this warning, which is probably relevant.</div><div><br></div><div>Fontconfig warning: ignoring UTF-8: not a valid region tag</div><div>warning:TransformPostDraw: tfPolyDrawList element 0 is invalid</div><div>warning:TransformPostDraw: tfPolyDrawList element 0 is invalid</div><div>warning:TransformPostDraw: tfPolyDrawList element 0 is invalid</div></div><div><br></div><div>I saw this from Mary Haley, but wasn't sure if it/how applies to my script.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_9033045640480575161gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Barry H. 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