[Mesquitelist] Cartographer problems

[Wayne Maddison]

Have you tried entering latitudes as negative numbers, as is 
customary (and in Cartographer required) for degrees West?  (See 
Cartographer instructions for entering data: 
http://mesquiteproject.org/packages/cartographer/data.html) ?
Wayne


At 12:22 PM -0600 14.12.2007, Lauren Cole Sallan wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I'm trying to plot a consensus tree on a calibrated map using the 
>Cartographer module.  However, the program seems to be plotting the 
>coordinates inverted (as seen on the attached map). The majority of 
>species should be in Florida, with the two far-flung taxa in the 
>yucatan. This map was calibrated using gridlines provided by 
>google-earth - the taxon coordinates were also obtained through 
>google earth and plotted on the same base map. What should I do to 
>fix this?
>
>Thanks,
>Lauren Sallan
>
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