GMT (The Generic Mapping Tools)

About

GMT is a collection of tools that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and produce Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots through contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views in black and white, gray tone, hachure patterns, and 24-bit color.

GMT supports many common map projections plus linear, log, and power scaling, and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries.

Homepage

http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu 

License

GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2

Documentation

Included on this LiveDVD are the GMT documentation (HTML and PDF), example scripts (including a low resolution worldwide coastline), tutorial (HTML and PDF), and data sets for the tutorial.

HTML and PDF documentation and tutorial can be found in /usr/share/doc/gmt/html/,
examples can be found in /usr/share/doc/gmt-examples/examples/,
and tutorial data can be found in /usr/share/doc/gmt-tutorial/tutorial/.

The low resolution coastline can be found in /usr/share/gmt/coast/.

Examples

There are 29 example jobs built in, and a script to run them all:

• Open a terminal


cp -r /usr/share/doc/gmt-examples/examples/ gmt-examples
cd gmt-examples/
./do_examples.sh

[whiz .. bang .. whirl]

View results: (type 'q' to quit gv)


for PLOT in `find . -name *.ps` ; do
  echo "$PLOT"
  gv "$PLOT"
done