Re: Generic Mapping Tools

[Ismael Núñez-Riboni]

Thanks for the answer.

On 02/24/2012 05:16 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Ismael Núñez-Riboni wrote:
>
> > Anybody combining Octave (3.4.3) with the generic mapping tools of the Hawaii 
> > University (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/)?
> >
> > I already googled, I'm aware of the MEX files to read grid files under Octave, 
> > but I wonder if there is an easy way of plotting from Octave using the GMT as a 
> > backend, i.e., not necessarily dreaming of this:
> >
> > graphics_toolkit gmt
> >
> > but at least some functions in Octave that pass data to be plotted as arguments 
> > to the GMT functions (not by saving on disk) to plot the data using GMT (and 
> > ideally in a X11 window and not to a PS file).
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the answer in advance... Cheers, Ismael.
>
> I haven't tried it, but are you looking for something like this ?
>
>         http://code.google.com/p/mirone/
>
> Ben

More or less, I guess the GDAL is a library for manipulating geospatial 
data (probably similar to the climate data operators) but the package 
does not seem to be able to plot... I would like a similar interface but 
with the GMTs (which are done to plot)... I guess there is nothing like 
that... It's not bad, I only need to combine one or two GMT functions 
with Octave, but I wanted to know if there was already worked done in 
this direction...