Test Traffic Project

TTmaps & Generic Mapping Tools

Overview

Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is a set of programs for easy generation of maps, written under the GPL-license by Paul Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith.

GMT reads coastline, rivers data -and similar input files- and generates "layers" of PostScript code (or EPS).
The input can be points, vectors or raster information, as long as it is related with geographical coordinates.
GMT applies one of multiple projections and creates a PS file.
Eg, the previous TT map projection from the Xerox PARC Map Viewer is the Mollweide.

TTmaps project makes use of GMT tools to create World and European maps of the testboxes.

GMT Documentation & tips:

TTmaps:

Installation

Installation of GMT tools is easy with the install_gmt script, which can be downloaded from the gmt homesite.

The source files (a copy is in directory ~fotis/spool/gmt/src_tgz/) are:
 8256 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff      4215606 Sep 13 19:14 GMT_doc.tar.bz2
56256 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff     28772625 Sep 13 19:09 GMT_full.tar.bz2
16896 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff      8637602 Sep 13 18:52 GMT_high.tar.bz2
 7168 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff      3660864 Sep 13 18:47 GMT_lib.tar.bz2
 1088 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff       541884 Sep 13 18:34 GMT_progs.tar.bz2
 5952 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff      3037109 Sep 13 19:11 GMT_scripts.tar.bz2
  480 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff       236016 Sep 13 19:09 GMT_suppl.tar.bz2
 2912 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff      1474810 Sep 13 19:15 GMT_web.tar.bz2
 4336 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  projects   2206850 Sep 13 16:18 igmt_v1.1.tar.gz
 4288 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff      2181485 Sep 16 13:41 igmt_v1.2.tar.gz
   60 -rwxr-xr-x   1 fotis  projects     29721 Sep 13 17:56 install_gmt
 2400 -rw-r--r--   1 fotis  staff      1216131 Sep 13 17:59 netcdf.tar.Z

Note: The above directory is still for version 3.3.1 of GMT tools < v3.3.2
In case you are not sure, you can always consult the installation log of v3.3.2