[GRASS-user] Re: [GMT-HELP] Some ideas on GRASS-GMT integration

[Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov]

Dylan,

This would be awesome: "… looks like it may soon be possible with GMT 5 to glue both GRASS and GMT together with 
python…" — one of the *unfounded" criticisms of GRASS is it's inability to produce nice publication quality maps. Well, 
this would lay that myth completely to rest.

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: Dylan Beaudette <dylan.beaudette at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:15 pm
Subject: [GRASS-user] Re: [GMT-HELP] Some ideas on GRASS-GMT integration

> On Thursday 17 May 2007 05:15, Tim Michelsen wrote:
> > Dylan,
> >
> > > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 12:13, Tim Michelsen wrote:
> > >> Hello Dylan,
> > >>
> > >>> 
> http://www.osgeo.org/files/journal/final_pdfs/OSGeo_vol1_GRASS-GMT.pdf
> > >>
> > >> Can tell you how much I was waiting for this one!
> > >> Hopefully I will learn how to publish publication-quality 
> maps. GIS
> > >> tools I have used so far didn't allow it very easily... and 
> leaning to
> > >> be a GMT wizzard isn't easy although it is well documented 
> throughout> >> the tutorials. So, my conformation on your 
> introduction.> >
> > > Thanks for the comments!
> >
> > allow me one more additional comment.
> > You did mention the python interface and recomended it as a good 
> way to
> > program a interface for GRASS-GMT interaction.
> >
> > I am not a coder but once stumbled accross the basemap class of 
> python> matplotlib:
> > 
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.toolkits.basemap.basemap.html>
> > I don't know whether this is a full implementation of GMT in 
> Python but
> > seems to use part of its logic.
> >
> >
> 
> Thanks for the ideas Tim. Paul has responded to this downstream, 
> but I just 
> wanted to mention that I was referring to the GRASS-Python bindings 
> in my 
> previous correspondence and article. 
> 
> However, it looks like it may soon be possible with GMT 5 to glue 
> both GRASS 
> and GMT together with python!! that would be something!
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Dylan Beaudette
> Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
> University of California at Davis
> 530.754.7341
> 
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