How to position a geoaxes figure within a uifigure (2024)

Hi @Bradley, I understand that you are trying to position a 'geoaxes' object within a specific area of a 'uifigure'. The key here is to ensure that the 'geoaxes' is a child of the 'uifigure' (or a container within the uifigure), and then to correctly set the 'Position' property.

However, there's a mistake in how you're setting the 'Position' property. The 'Position' property expects values in the format [x y width height], where x and y specify the distance from the left and bottom edges of the parent container, respectively, and 'width' and 'height' specify the size of the component. All values are in pixels.

Given that, your code should look something like this:

A few key points to remember:

• Ensure fig is your uifigure object.
• When setting gx.Parent = fig, you're specifying that the geoaxes is a child of the uifigure, which is correct.
• Adjust the gx.Position values to position the map exactly where you want it within the uifigure. The first two numbers [10 10] are the bottom-left corner relative to the uifigure, and the last two numbers [500 500] are the size of the geoaxes.
• If you're placing multiple components within the uifigure, consider using uigridlayout or uiflowcontainer for more flexible and automatic layout management
• Remember to adjust the Position values to fit the layout you're aiming for.

Please refer to below mentioned documentations link for better understanding:

1. uifigure Documentation: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uifigure.html
2. geoaxes Documentation: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/geoaxes.html
3. Position Property for UI Components: Here's an example within the uicontrol documentation that explains the Position property: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uicontrol.html

I hope this helps.

Default geoaxes Units are normalized (see here), which means that a Position of [100 100 500 500] places the geoaxes' lower left corner at 100 times the size of the uifigure and makes the geoaxes' size 500 times the size of the uifigure. That's why it doesn't show up when specifying the Position - it's way outside the uifigure.

To make the Position [100 100 500 500] pixels, set its Units to pixels before setting the position, e.g.:

It doesn't need to be in one call like that, but Units does need to be set before Position for it to work right.

(If you want the geoaxes to remain at the size 500x500 pixels, you'll also need to specify that the uifigure has its 'AutoResizeChildren' property set to 'off', if you are not already doing that.)