Non-zebra striped frame in Mercator Projection maps in PyGMT

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I’m trying to modify the frame parameters to remove zebra-striped b/w frame with normal edges but it isn’t working as supposed to (when used projection of X[length]/[width]) is this not possible with Mercator projection maps?

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Hello @anirudh,

To change the frame appearance, you can use the GMT default parameter MAP_FRAME_TYPE:

import pygmt

size = 5

fig = pygmt.Figure()

pygmt.config(MAP_FRAME_TYPE="fancy")
fig.basemap(region=[-size, size] * 2, projection=f"M{size*2}c", frame=True)

fig.shift_origin(xshift="+w+1c")

pygmt.config(MAP_FRAME_TYPE="plain")
fig.basemap(region=[-size, size] * 2, projection=f"M{size*2}c", frame=True)

fig.show()

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Thank you very much, it’s perfect