General Mapping Tools (GMT)- Forum and Index (English)

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• GMT Introduction

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    Japanese URL
  • GMT exercises with Windows

    GMT (the Generic Mapping Tools) is a software program developed at the University of Hawaii to create maps and graphs. It is an open source program used by oceanographers around the world. You can draw diagrams like the ones below with just a few lines of commands.

    
    

    

    
    

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    GMT 5.4.5 documentation (University of Hawaii) URL
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    GMT 5.4.5 CookBook (University of Hawaii) URL

• Contribute to SDGs
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    Contribute to SDGs (GMT educational materials by Ooki) Page

        
    LASBOS supports SDGs

    Above, we explain how these GMT educational materials contribute to SDGs.
    

• For Mac users
  •  Windows and Mac differ in the environment in which they execute commands: Windows executes batch files (.bat) in the Command Prompt, while Macintosh executes shell script files (.sh) in the Terminal.
    Due to this difference in execution environment, the commands are slightly different. If you are a Mac user, please notice the following.

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    Differences between the Windows and Mac Page
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    Give permission to the shell script file (in Japanese) URL

    When you run the shell script file on Mac for the first time, you need to give it a "permission."

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    Download the shell script files for Mac Folder

    These are the .sh files for exercises 2-1 to 9-4.
    Download the data files from the following link.

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    Download the data files for Mac Folder

    The contents of the text files are the same as for Windows, but please note that the file names are different.
    (On Mac, if the file name contains a hyphen "-", an error may occur.)

• GMT course-Index
  • All pages below are in Japanese.
    

  • GMT-Tips and trouble shooting
    (Convert a text file to a batch file)
    

    GMT installation
    (Installation overview: for people familiar with computer operations)
    ( Installation detail: for novice computer users)

    Introduction to vector graphics software (inkscape)

    GMT-Draw a map (pscoast)

    GMT-Export file path setting

    GMT-Convert the export file to PDF (psconvert)

    GMT Define statement (set=)

    GMT Color pallet (makecpt)

    GMT Draw a contour diagram (grdimage)

    GMT-Plot on XY coordinates 1 (psxy)

    GMT-Plot on XY coordinates 2 (psxy) exercise 5-1

    GMT-Plot on XY coordinates 3 (psxy) exercise 5-2

    GMT-Plot on XY coordinates 4 (psxy) exercise 5-3

    GMT-Plot on XY coordinates 5 (psxy) exercise 5-4

    GMT-Plot on XY coordinates 6 (psxy) exercise 6-1

    GMT-Plot on XY coordinates 7 (psxy) exercise 6-2

    GMT-Plot on XY coordinates 8 (psxy) exercise 6-3

    GMT-Color contour plot on XY coordinates 1 (exercise 7-1)

    GMT-Color contour plot on XY coordinates 2 (exercise 7-2)

    GMT-Color contour scale (psscale) (exercise 7-3)

    GMT-Base map (psbasemap) 1 (exercise 8-1, 2)

    GMT-Base map (psbasemap) 2 (exercise 8-3)

    GMT-Change default settings (gmtdefaults) (exercise 8-4)

    GMT Using oceanographic data to draw a vertical profile (exercise 8-5)

    GMT Time series vertical cross section of oceanographic data 1) (exercise 9-1)

    GMT Time series vertical cross section of oceanographic data 2) (exercise 9-2, 3, 4)

    GMT Organizing time series data

    GMT Time series vertical cross section of oceanographic data 3) (exercise 10)