Re: MAPM & GMT Package design?

[Orion Poplawski]

On 05/14/2014 02:28 PM, Clark Dunson wrote:
> Hey everybody;
> 
> I'm thinking of marrying GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) and Octave to create a 
> mapping toolbox.  It's a sizeable project, so I started cutting my teeth by 
> first bringing together MAPM (http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ringx004/mapm-main.html) 
> and Octave as a learning exercise.  That was last week, and I got pretty far. 
>  I can auto-generate the bindings as oct-files with help info for DEFUN_DLD, 
> made derived octave_base_value, etc.  But this morning I discovered cdemill's 
> wrapping of GPM and the mptoolbox, and learned that we already have an APM 
> toolbox!  Oh well, the learning experience was good, perhaps the biggest 
> lesson being to check more thoroughly about whether I am duplicating effort! 
> :)

  GMT 4 had a matlab/octave API/interface that was lost with GMT5.  As I
understand it reproducing it is on the GMT team's todo list, so you
might want to check it with the GMT folks as well.

- Orion


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