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The Generic Mapping Tools
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on Saturday May 19, @10:54AM
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I discovered the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) described below, while reading this article on GRASS GIS and GMT integration [pdf, 450k] from the new OSGeo Journal. On its website, GMT is introduced as: "GMT is an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views. GMT supports ~30 map projections and transformations and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries. [...] So far, over 1500 such blocks have been registered, representing more than 15,000 individual GMT users."
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Tyler Mitchell writes "The first volume of the OSGeo Journal has now been released. This is a major milestone for spreading the word about open source geospatial applications in general and for helping build communication between projects and users involved with the OSGeo Foundation. The Journal provides news, event summaries, project introductions, case studies, topical articles and more. Volume 2 is currently under development. For more information see http://www.osgeo.org/journal or download the 71 page (15MB) Journal directly from: http://www.osgeo.org/files/journal/final_pdfs/OSGe oJournal_vol1.pdf"
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A month ago PerryGeo discussed a free geodata manipulation software named Mirone especially useful to those who use MATLAB. From the Minore website: "Mirone is a Windows MATLAB-based framework tool that allows the display and manipulation of a large number of grid/images formats through its interface with the GDAL library. Its main purpose is to provide users with an easy-to-use graphical interface to manipulate GMT grids." For those with an interest in MATLAB, a look at Octave might be worthed.
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