# How to make a South-up map using GeoMakie

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-a-south-up-map-using-geomakie/96438>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, geo, makie\
**Created:** [March 22, 2023, 10:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-a-south-up-map-using-geomakie/96438 "2023-03-22T10:09:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![dpabon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@dpabon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpabon)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 10:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-a-south-up-map-using-geomakie/96438/1 "2023-03-22T10:09:19Z")

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I would like to produce a coast-lines plot using GeoMakie like this one:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/8/981398d001217df6db85075b548e08148d1a940a.jpeg)

or this one:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/c/b/cb07078c7eabcccb01ec6844c059188a54e46c8a.jpeg)

I tried with the dest projection, but doesn’t work well:

```julia
using CairoMakie, GeoMakie

fig = Figure()
ga = GeoAxis(
    fig[1, 1]; 
    dest = "+proj=eqearth +lon_0=180", 
    coastlines = true,
)

fig

```

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/f/3/f3f24edc419106744c3eea7b7365d113b5a5c07f.png)

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,  
Daniel

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**Author:** ![asinghvi17](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/asinghvi17/32/8272_2.png) [@asinghvi17](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/asinghvi17)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-a-south-up-map-using-geomakie/96438/2 "2023-03-22T15:18:36Z")

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You’ll have to turn off the ticks, but `scale!(ga.scene, 1, -1, 1)` will do it.

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**Author:** ![dpabon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@dpabon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpabon)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-make-a-south-up-map-using-geomakie/96438/3 "2023-03-23T13:15:17Z")

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Thanks for your help, Anshul,

Your solution works like a charm. For the ticks I found a not so elegant solution, but it works.

```julia
using CairoMakie, GeoMakie

fig = Figure()
ga = GeoAxis(
    fig[1, 1]; 
    dest = "+proj=wintri", 
    coastlines = true,
)

scale!(ga.scene, 1, -1, 1)

fig

fig.current_axis.x.ytickformat = x ->["90ᵒ N", "60ᵒ N", "30ᵒ N", "0ᵒ ", "30ᵒ S", "60ᵒ S", "90ᵒ S"]

fig

```

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/b/7/b71434138ba83de162da3f66ff0b9af50c23edce.png)