How to change the font size of a map axes (created using the Mapping toolbox) keeping the whole plot within the figure?

Greetings,

I am trying to create a map for a publication and I would like to (easily) change the FontSize of my map axes and still have the axes printed inside the figure.

I am using the following code:

latLim = [-53.7 -52];
lonLim = [-41 -39.2];

figure
h = worldmap(latLim, lonLim);
setm(gca, 'FontSize', 20);

This code yields to this figure:

As you might notice, the longitudes are cropped.

PS: I want to keep the following:

get(gcf, 'position')

ans =

   560   528   560   420

How can I make sure the map will be plotted in a correct manner inside this figure?

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

Try to reduce the axes size

latLim = [-53.7 -52];
lonLim = [-41 -39.2];
figure
h = worldmap(latLim, lonLim);
setm(gca, 'FontSize', 14);
h.Position(4) = h.Position(4)-0.1;

[Benoit Espinola]

This is a workaround that currently works, thanks. I fail to understand why Mathworks doesn't make plotting and figure making easier and more logic.

Do you by any chance know if we can rotate the lat text 90deg?

[Ameer Hamza]

Overall, I find Matlab graphics function to be convenient, however, I never used worldmap() before. I agree that the way worldmap is created, is a real mess. I don't think there is an easy way to rotate the labels. Following shows a workaround, but making any adjustment to the position of labels is quite difficult.

latLim = [-53.7 -52];
lonLim = [-41 -39.2];
figure
h = worldmap(latLim, lonLim);
setm(gca, 'FontSize', 14);
h.Position(4) = h.Position(4)-0.1;
lbls = findobj(h, 'Tag', 'PLabel');

[lbls.HorizontalAlignment] = deal('center');
[lbls.Rotation] = deal(-90);
for i=1:numel(lbls)
    lbls(i).Position = lbls(i).Position - 15000;
end

[Benoit Espinola]

Thanks, that's really odd, as the mapping toolbox is a paid option.\