API: default locator on colorbars to AutoLocator #6375
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This brings them inline with the default locator on the x and y axis. Noted in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37053874/
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I think @efiring would probably know best about why the colorbars have the locators they have. |
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I think it is just a quirk of history that colorbar is using the default MaxNLocator instead of AutoLocator, which is just MaxNLocator with different defaults. Switching to AutoLocator will reduce the number of colorbar ticks in most cases where it gets used, because AutoLocator has a smaller set of "nice" numbers, and has the recently-added 'auto' ability to adjust the number based on the axis length. In cases where the |
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This brings them inline with the default locator on the x and y axis.
Noted in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37053874/