.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "gallery/gridlines_and_labels/tick_labels.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        :ref:`Go to the end <sphx_glr_download_gallery_gridlines_and_labels_tick_labels.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_gridlines_and_labels_tick_labels.py:


Tick Labels
-----------

This example demonstrates adding tick labels to maps on rectangular
projections using special tick formatters.

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 9-50



.. image-sg:: /gallery/gridlines_and_labels/images/sphx_glr_tick_labels_001.png
   :alt: tick labels
   :srcset: /gallery/gridlines_and_labels/images/sphx_glr_tick_labels_001.png
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: Python

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    import cartopy.crs as ccrs
    from cartopy.mpl.ticker import LatitudeFormatter, LongitudeFormatter


    def main():
        fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 10))

        # Label axes of a Plate Carree projection with a central longitude of 180:
        ax1 = fig.add_subplot(2, 1, 1,
                              projection=ccrs.PlateCarree(central_longitude=180))
        ax1.set_global()
        ax1.coastlines()
        ax1.set_xticks([0, 60, 120, 180, 240, 300, 360], crs=ccrs.PlateCarree())
        ax1.set_yticks([-90, -60, -30, 0, 30, 60, 90], crs=ccrs.PlateCarree())
        lon_formatter = LongitudeFormatter(zero_direction_label=True)
        lat_formatter = LatitudeFormatter()
        ax1.xaxis.set_major_formatter(lon_formatter)
        ax1.yaxis.set_major_formatter(lat_formatter)

        # Label axes of a Mercator projection without degree symbols in the labels
        # and formatting labels to include 1 decimal place:
        ax2 = fig.add_subplot(2, 1, 2, projection=ccrs.Mercator())
        ax2.set_global()
        ax2.coastlines()
        ax2.set_xticks([-180, -120, -60, 0, 60, 120, 180], crs=ccrs.PlateCarree())
        ax2.set_yticks([-78.5, -60, -25.5, 25.5, 60, 80], crs=ccrs.PlateCarree())
        lon_formatter = LongitudeFormatter(number_format='.1f',
                                           degree_symbol='',
                                           dateline_direction_label=True)
        lat_formatter = LatitudeFormatter(number_format='.1f',
                                          degree_symbol='')
        ax2.xaxis.set_major_formatter(lon_formatter)
        ax2.yaxis.set_major_formatter(lat_formatter)

        plt.show()


    if __name__ == '__main__':
        main()


.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing

   **Total running time of the script:** (0 minutes 0.592 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_gridlines_and_labels_tick_labels.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: tick_labels.ipynb <tick_labels.ipynb>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: tick_labels.py <tick_labels.py>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

    `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery <https://sphinx-gallery.github.io>`_