Why PyGMT?
A beautiful map is worth a thousand words. To truly understand how powerful PyGMT is, play with it online on Binder! But if you need some convincing first, watch this 1 hour introduction to PyGMT!
Afterwards, feel free to look at our Tutorials or visit the PyGMT Gallery.
About
PyGMT is a library for processing geospatial and geophysical data and making publication quality maps and figures. It provides a Pythonic interface for the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), a command-line program widely used in the Earth Sciences.
We rely heavily on new features that have been implemented in GMT 6.0. In particular, a new modern execution mode that greatly simplifies figure creation. These features are not available in the 5.4 version of GMT.
Project goals
Make GMT more accessible to new users.
Build a Pythonic API for GMT.
Interface with the GMT C API directly using ctypes (no system calls).
Support for rich display in the Jupyter notebook.
Integration with the PyData ecosystem:
numpy.ndarrayorpandas.DataFramefor data tables andxarray.DataArrayfor grids.
Contacting Us
Most discussion happens on GitHub. Feel free to open an issue or comment on any open issue or pull request.
We have a Discourse forum where you can ask questions and leave comments.
Contributing
Code of conduct
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
Contributing Guidelines
Please read our Contributing Guide to see how you can help and give feedback.
Imposter syndrome disclaimer
We want your help. No, really.
There may be a little voice inside your head that is telling you that you’re not ready to be an open source contributor; that your skills aren’t nearly good enough to contribute. What could you possibly offer?
We assure you that the little voice in your head is wrong.
Being a contributor doesn’t just mean writing code. Equally important contributions include: writing or proof-reading documentation, suggesting or implementing tests, or even giving feedback about the project (including giving feedback about the contribution process). If you’re coming to the project with fresh eyes, you might see the errors and assumptions that seasoned contributors have glossed over. If you can write any code at all, you can contribute code to open source. We are constantly trying out new skills, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes. That’s how we all improve and we are happy to help others learn.
This disclaimer was adapted from the MetPy project.
Citing PyGMT
PyGMT is a community developed project. See the AUTHORS.md file on GitHub for a list of the people involved and a definition of the term “PyGMT Developers”. Feel free to cite our work in your research using the following BibTeX:
@software{pygmt_2021_5607255,
author = {Uieda, Leonardo and
Tian, Dongdong and
Leong, Wei Ji and
Jones, Meghan and
Schlitzer, William and
Toney, Liam and
Grund, Michael and
Yao, Jiayuan and
Magen, Yohai and
Materna, Kathryn and
Newton, Tyler and
Anant, Abhishek and
Ziebarth, Malte and
Wessel, Paul},
title = {{PyGMT: A Python interface for the Generic Mapping Tools}},
month = oct,
year = 2021,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {v0.5.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5607255},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5607255}
}
To cite a specific version of PyGMT, go to our Zenodo page at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3781524 and use the “Export to BibTeX” function there.
It is also strongly recommended to cite the
GMT6 paper (which PyGMT wraps around).
Note that some modules like surface and x2sys also have their dedicated citation.
Further information for all these can be found at https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/cite.
License
PyGMT is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD 3-clause License. A copy of this license is provided in LICENSE.txt.
Support
The development of PyGMT has been supported by NSF grants OCE-1558403 and EAR-1948603.
Compatibility with GMT/Python/NumPy versions
PyGMT Version |
Documentation |
GMT |
Python |
Numpy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dev (upcoming release) |
Dev Documentation (reflects main branch) |
>=6.2.0 |
>=3.7 |
>=1.18 |
v0.5.0 (latest release) |
>=6.2.0 |
>=3.7 |
>=1.18 |
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>=6.2.0 |
>=3.7 |
>=1.17 |
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>=6.2.0 |
>=3.7 |
>=1.17 |
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>=6.1.1 |
>=3.7 |
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>=6.1.1 |
>=3.7 |
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>=6.1.1 |
>=3.6 |
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>=6.1.1 |
3.6 - 3.8 |
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>=6.0.0 |
3.6 - 3.8 |
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>=6.0.0 |
3.6 - 3.8 |
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>=6.0.0 |
3.6 - 3.8 |