[GRASSLIST:3162] Re: Grass and GMT file formats.

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:00:44PM +0000, Antonio wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I realize that to have good map output I should use GMT. However I'm not too sure I've understood which are the procedures I have to follow to extract data from grass and feed it in to GMT. I seem to have figured out that GMT understands only two file formats: a) netCDF b) Sun Raster.
> Right, the question is 'how do I the right file formats from grass so as to feed them in to GMT?'
> Is there some nice documentation that handles interaction of the two programs.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> PS.
> Observation: I'm non expert in grass nor do I know noting about GMT but I seem to understand that coupling these two progs give one high flexibility. No?

Hi Antonio,

the r.out.bin should write GMT raster format (see the man page).
I recently tried myself, but got stuck with the usage of [i]GMT. 

If there were any scripts around ("r.out.gmt"), I would be interested
as well.

Markus