lists of conditions

Question

I have got coordinates in two list of Latitude and Longitude and would like to check if those coordinates are in a certain grid

Example lists are:

qLon={-7.48333, -10.4667, -8.66667, -7.48333}
qLat={53.5, 52.5, 53.1167, 51.9833, 51.0167}

Grid borders:

  SLat=47
  NLat=55
  ELon=-15
  SLon=-5

My idea was:

If[ELon <= # <= WLon, "","Outside Grid"] & /@ qLon
If[SLat <= # <= NLat, "","Outside Grid"] & /@ qLat

I would like to merge them, to do the test in one go, like:

If[ELon <= #1 <= WLon && SLat <= #2 <= NLat,...

but could not get it working.

Another thing is the output; it should only show something if there is a point outside the grid.

Answer 1

I assume the latitude and longitude lists should be the same length, and that SLon should be WLon.

qLon = {-7.48333, -10.4667, -8.66667, -7.48333, -8, 3, 99};
qLat = {53.5, 52.5, 53.1167, 51.9833, 51.0167, 62.1, 50};

{{SLat, NLat}, {ELon, WLon}} = {{47, 55}, {-15, -5}};

MapThread[
 If[ELon <= #1 <= WLon && SLat <= #2 <= NLat, "In", "Out"] &,
 {qLon, qLat}
]

{"In", "In", "In", "In", "In", "Out", "Out"}

For the second part of your question you can use the "vanishing function" ## &[], which works inside If where Sequence[] fails because If does not have the attribute SequenceHold. Perhaps you want:

MapThread[
 If[
    ELon <= #1 <= WLon && SLat <= #2 <= NLat,
    ## &[],
    Row[{"Out:", #, #2}, "  "]
 ]&,
 {qLon, qLat}
]

{Out: 3 62.1, Out: 99 50}