Hi Akio,
    I'm not sure if there is a way to use the color map automatically in
this case, but based on the "station_2.ncl" example, I had produced
colored markers with a colorbar. Attached is the script and its product.
Hope that helps.
    Cheers,
    deniz
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    Deniz Bozkurt
    Research Assistant
    Istanbul Technical University
    Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
    34469 Maslak, Istanbul-Turkey
    E-mail: bozkurtd@itu.edu.tr
    Web: http://web.itu.edu.tr/~bozkurtd/
    Alinti "akio.hansen" <akio.hansen@zmaw.de>
> Hi,
>
>   to visualize a little bit my purpose, I found out one plot, which shows
>   exactly what I'm trying to do. It is at page 23 of the following Leeds
>   Presentation:
> http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CEAQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Faerocom.met.no%2FDATA%2FAEROCOM%2FDATA%2FAEROCOM_WORK%2Freykjavik%2Fmann.pdf&ei=s_gQUdHlHIrRsgaeuIDADw&usg=AFQjCNHnWr1v7fkJlOd0RTrFKSl99Nv7hw&bvm=bv.41934586,d.Yms&cad=rja
>   Does someone know, how to get this kind of plot with ncl, so colored
>   markers with a colorbar?
>
>   Thanks a lot!
>   Akio
>
>   -------- Original Message --------
>   Subject: Colorize markers from gsn_polymarker() with colormap
>   Date: 2013-02-04 21:28
>   From: "akio.hansen" <akio.hansen@zmaw.de>
>   To: <ncl-talk@ucar.edu>
>
>   Hi,
>
>   sorry, I'm a total NCL newbie and I hope my question is not too stupid,
>   but even after six hours of searching the NCL website, mailing list and
>   Google, I couldn't find a good solution for my problem... I actually use
>   the sample station data "pw.dat" from the NCL homepage with the ASCII
>   format "ID LAT LON PW", which I want to plot on a world map. The example
>   plot works quite well. But now my problem: I want to colorize these
>   markers with a colormap and not with bins like it is shown in
>   "station_2.ncl" on http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/station.shtml .
>   Besides this, I try to get a colorbar at the bottom, which shows me the
>   values of the different colors. All my plots show only one-colored
>   markers, if I don't use the bin scheme from the NCL example. So, my
>   question would be, is there any possibility to use a automatic color map
>   and not define each bin manually ? I hope you understand, what I try to
>   do?!? ;-)
>   I attached my actual code to this mail.
>
>   Thank you all very much!
>   Akio
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