[Mapserver-users] GMT and netCDF

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

If you think of a NetCDF file as a Fortran-formatted data file, it will 
start making sense. GMT is a good tool for grid data, and works well for 
  producing some maps, but it's not designed to do what Mapserver does.

They're not the same thing, they are tools for different purposes.

For what it's worth, I spend a LOT of time with netCDF files, read them, 
put the data in postgres db's and then make shapefiles from them.

Gerry

Murilo Lacerda Yoshida wrote:
>   Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
>   Has anyone in the list used the GMT (Generic Mapping Tools)? I looked 
> at its documentation and it is really a mess… What I understood is that 
> the input for GMT is a netCDF file, or a ascii table, or a raster file.
> 
>   I use shape files. I didn’t found in the documentation a way to 
> translate the shape file to a netCDF file, or use the shape file as 
> input for GMT.
> 
>   And if I understood the documentation, GMT has what I need, that is 
> that map interpolation issue. But things are never that easy...
> 
>   Help me please,
> 
>     Murilo
> 

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