User`s guide

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contains the highest resolution data. For information on downloading the ETOPO data
sets, see Technical Note 2101: Accessing Geospatial Data on the Internet for the Mapping
Toolbox on the Mathworks Web site.
Compatibility Considerations
The etopo function still works with ETOPO2 and ETOPO5 data.
Now Possible to Retrieve Legend for WMS Map
The Details property of the WMSLayer class contains a Style field. A LegendURL
structure has been added to this field. The information in the LegendURL structure, if
provided by the server, enables you to retrieve a legend image for a specific WMS map.
Clipping Property Default Now Set to 'off'
Clipping is now 'off' by default for both map frames and graticule ("grid") lines. This
is advantageous in certain display situations, but it also means that the frame and
graticule may extend outside the axes limits (unlike the data plotted on the map), if you
zoom in on a figure containing a map. You can use set to turn clipping back on, like this,
for example:
set(handlem('frame'),'Clipping','on')
set(handlem('grid'),'Clipping','on')
Compatibility Considerations
In releases before R2010a, the default for the Clipping property was 'on'.
The shaperead and shapewrite Functions Now Support Non-ASCII
Characters
You can now use the shaperead and shapewrite functions to import and export attributes
with non-ASCII characters. To use this feature, you must set your character encoding
scheme to match that used by the shapefile. For example, if your session is configured to
support US_ASCII character encoding and you want to import a shapefile with Japanese
characters, you must first change your configuration to support Shift_JIS.