Draw the scalebar without any text

[pskeshu]

I'm trying to plot just a scalebar without any associated text that says what's the length and unit of scale bar. What's the best way to do this?

[AKuederle]

If I remember correctly, you could use the label formatter and just pass it an empty string

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[AKuederle]

To be more precise. I think you would pass a function that returns an empty string, because the label formatter is passed the scale and the unit. So as argument of the scalebar you can set : ``` label_formatter=lambda x: '' ```

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[pskeshu]

Thanks @AKuederle! 😃

Although I had to use label_formatter = lambda x, y:''. I was previously trying scalebar.label_formatter('', '') which didn't work as expected.

[habi]

One thing that worked for me was setting the label text to size zero with font_properties={'size':0}.

Setting font_properties={'size':0} adds a tiny scalebar text, as can be seen in the heavily zoomed screenshot below. Use label_formatter = lambda x, y:'' as suggested by @pskeshu above!

[shuzokato]

Thanks for the information.
As of 2022, scale_formatter=lambda x, y:'' works for this because 'label_formatter' is deprecated.

[ppinard]

Actually as of 2022, it is easier to do set scale_loc and label_loc to "none". Note not None, but a string none.