GMT

GMT - Geographic mapping tools that produce EPS illustrations

Generic Mapping Tools is a free, public-domain collection of ~60 UNIX tools that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) to 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 25 common map projections plus linear, log, and power scaling, and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries.

Since the package is quite large, the authors suggest looking at the list of mirrors on the page to ensure that you download from the one closest to you.

Obtaining

Web page http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/
Source tarball http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt_install_form.html
Version 3.4.3 (stable) released on 2003-05-01

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User tutorial available in HTML format from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/html/tutorial/tutorial.html; User tutorial available in PostScript format from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/ps/GMT_Tutorial.ps; User tutorial available in PDF format from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/pdf/GMT_Tutorial.pdf; User man pages available from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/gmt_man.html; Programmer's technical reference available in HTML format from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/html/GMT_Docs/GMT_Docs.html; Programmer's technical reference available in PostScript format from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/ps/GMT_Docs.ps; Programmer's technical reference available in PDF format from http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/pdf/GMT_Docs.pdf

Support contacts

Help List

<gmt-help@soest.hawaii.edu> <listproc@hawaii.edu> Body: subscribe gmthelp [username]

Project contacts

Maintainers	Paul Wessel <wessel@soest.hawaii.edu>
Developers	Paul Wessel <wessel@soest.hawaii.edu> Walter H. F. Smith <walter@amos.grdl.noaa.gav>
Sponsors	National Science Foundation

Related information

Interfaces	X Window System
Source languages	C, Perl
Use requirements	lsmod, rmmod, ksyms
Weak prerequisites	bzip2

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-04-18
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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