2010-05-12 23:27:34 +02:00
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Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is an open source collection of ~60 tools for
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manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering,
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trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing Encapsulated
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PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via
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contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective
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views. GMT supports ~30 map projections and transformations and comes
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with support data such as GSHHS coastlines, rivers, and political
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boundaries. GMT is developed and maintained by Paul Wessel and Walter
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H. F. Smith with help from a global set of volunteers, and is supported
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by the National Science Foundation. It is released under the GNU General
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Public License.
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2011-08-14 04:47:35 +02:00
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GMT requires netcdf.
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2010-04-09 07:39:24 +02:00
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2011-08-14 04:47:35 +02:00
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With the 4.5.7 GMT release, there is only a single coastline archive to
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download. Accordingly, I've modified the script to use all the coastline
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data (removing the option of using only a subset of the coastline files).
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2010-04-09 07:39:24 +02:00
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Please note, Shewchuk's triangulation routine used in some parts of GMT is
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not distributed under the GNU Public Licence. If you work for a for-profit
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organisation, you should read Shewchuk's copyright statement first (in
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src/README.TRIANGLE). This script enables the (much faster) Shewchuk
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triangulation routine by default; should you need to change this behaviour,
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set SHEWCHUK to "no" in the build script.
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