Maximize Geographic Axes in Figure

Maximize the layout of a geographic axes by making the map fill the entire figure and by hiding the grid and tick marks.

This example assumes that the geographic axes is parented to a Figure object and uses the default values for the Units property, "normalized", and the OuterPosition property, [0 0 1 1]. Otherwise, the axes might not fill the figure and you might see the tick and axis labels.

Create a map from the latitude and longitude coordinates stored in a table.

counties = readtable("counties.xlsx");
lat = counties.Latitude;
lon = counties.Longitude;
geoplot(lat,lon,"*m")

Maximize the geographic axes within the figure. For best results, the Units property of the geographic axes should be "normalized" and the OuterPosition property of the geographic axes should be [0 0 1 1]. Otherwise, decorations such as the tick and axis labels might still be visible.

• Make the axes fill the entire figure by setting the InnerPosition property of the axes object equal to the OuterPosition property.

• Remove the tick marks by changing the TickDir property of the axes object.

• Turn off the grid by using the grid function.

gx = gca;
gx.InnerPosition = gx.OuterPosition;
gx.TickDir = "none";
grid off