gmt

The Generic Mapping Tools

https://github.com/genericmappingtools/gmt

Science Score: 77.0%

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Keywords

c earth-science generic-mapping-tools geophysics geospatial mapping

Keywords from Contributors

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Repository

The Generic Mapping Tools

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: GenericMappingTools
License: other
Language: C
Default Branch: master
Homepage: https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org
Size: 953 MB

Statistics

Stars: 908
Watchers: 40
Forks: 388
Open Issues: 256
Releases: 18

Topics

c earth-science generic-mapping-tools geophysics geospatial mapping

Created over 7 years ago · Last pushed 6 months ago

Metadata Files

Readme Contributing License Citation

Generic Mapping Tools

What is GMT?

GMT is an open source collection of about 100 command-line tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing high-quality illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces, 3D perspective views and animations. The GMT supplements add another 50 more specialized and discipline-specific tools. GMT supports over 30 map projections and transformations and requires support data such as GSHHG coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries and optionally DCW country polygons.

GMT is developed and maintained by the GMT Team, with help from a global set of contributors and support by the National Science Foundation.

The GMT World Domination

Considering its flexibility at no charge, people worldwide are using GMT in their work and at home. Most users of GMT are Earth, ocean or planetary scientists, but there are apparently no limits to the kind of applications that may benefit from GMT. We know GMT is used in medical research, engineering, physics, mathematics, social and biological sciences, and by geographers, fisheries institutes, oil companies, a wide range of government agencies, and last but not least innumerable hobbyists.

Installation

GMT has been installed successfully under UNIX/Linux/macOS/FreeBSD/OpenBSD on workstations. It also installs under Windows and in UNIX emulators such as Cygwin or on virtual machines. We anticipate few problems if you are installing the package on other platforms.

Note there are three GMT tar archives available (#3 is optional):

gmt-6.x.x.tar.gz: The GMT 6 distribution
gshhg-gmt-2.x.x.tar.gz: All five resolutions of GSHHG coastline data
dcw-gmt-2.x.x.tar.gz: Digital Chart of the World polygon data

For macOS and Windows users there are separate installers available. You can obtain GMT and support data from the GMT main site.

Refer to the install instructions to install GMT, and build instructions to build GMT from the sources.

Citation

If you think it is appropriate, you may consider paying us back by including our latest article in the reference list of your future publications that will benefit from the availability of GMT:

Wessel, P., Luis, J. F., Uieda, L., Scharroo, R., Wobbe, F., Smith, W. H. F., & Tian, D. (2019). The Generic Mapping Tools version 6. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, 5556-5564. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008515

Software support

You haven't bought anything so you cannot expect full service. However, if you find a bug in any of the programs, please report it to us by opening an issue rather than trying to fix it yourself so that we, and through us, other users may benefit from your find. Make sure you provide us with enough information so that we can recreate the problem.

For general questions, please post on the GMT Community Forum.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and appreciated. Please refer to the contributing guidelines for more details.

License

GMT is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or any later version. See LICENSE.TXT for full details.

Acknowledgment

GMT relies on several other Open Source software libraries, programs and data for its operation. We gratefully acknowledge the importance to GMT of these products. GMT may be linked with these libraries (* means optional):

Network Common Data Form (netCDF), Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL), Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE*), Fastest Fourier Transform in the West (FFTW*), Linear Algebra Package (LAPACK*), Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS*), GLIB*, and ZLIB*. GMT may call these executables: GDAL (ogr2ogr, gdal_translate), Ghostscript, FFmpeg, xdg-open, and GraphicsMagick.

GMT uses (or can access) raster data derived from these sources:

GMT provides several color maps from these sources:

Owner

Name: The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)
Login: GenericMappingTools
Kind: organization

Website: https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org
Twitter: gmt_dev
Repositories: 44
Profile: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools

Tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data and creating plots, maps, and 3D views

Citation (CITATION.cff)

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you think it is appropriate, you may consider paying us back by including our latest article in the reference list of your future publications that will benefit from the availability of GMT."
title: "The Generic Mapping Tools Version 6"
authors:
- family-names: Wessel
  given-names: Paul
  affiliation: University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5708-7336
- family-names: "Luis"
  given-names: "Joaquim"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9035-4069"
- family-names: "Uieda"
  given-names: "Leonardo"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-9515"
- family-names: "Scharroo"
  given-names: "Remko"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-131X"
- family-names: "Wobbe"
  given-names: "Florian"
- family-names: "Smith"
  given-names: "Walter"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8814-015X"
- family-names: "Tian"
  given-names: "Dongdong"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7967-1197"
- family-names: "Jones"
  given-names: "Max"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0180-8928"
- family-names: "Esteban"
  given-names: "Federico"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0641-7371"
- family-names: "Fröhlich"
  given-names: "Yvonne"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0641-7371"
version: 6.6.0
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16448627
date-released: 2025-07-26
license: LGPL-3.0-or-later
repository-code: "https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt"
type: software
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  authors:
  - family-names: "Wessel"
    given-names: "Paul"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5708-7336"
  - family-names: "Luis"
    given-names: "Joaquim"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9035-4069"
  - family-names: "Uieda"
    given-names: "Leonardo"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6123-9515"
  - family-names: "Scharroo"
    given-names: "Remko"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2118-131X"
  - family-names: "Wobbe"
    given-names: "Florian"
  - family-names: "Smith"
    given-names: "Walter"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8814-015X"
  - family-names: "Tian"
    given-names: "Dongdong"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7967-1197"
  doi: "10.1029/2019GC008515"
  journal: "Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems"
  start: 5556
  end: 5564
  title: "The Generic Mapping Tools version 6"
  issue: 11
  volume: 20
  year: 2019

GitHub Events

Total

Create event: 94
Commit comment event: 3
Release event: 1
Issues event: 81
Watch event: 55
Delete event: 85
Issue comment event: 320
Push event: 259
Pull request review comment event: 11
Pull request review event: 90
Pull request event: 209
Fork event: 35

Last Year

Create event: 94
Commit comment event: 3
Release event: 1
Issues event: 81
Watch event: 55
Delete event: 85
Issue comment event: 320
Push event: 259
Pull request review comment event: 11
Pull request review event: 90
Pull request event: 209
Fork event: 35

Committers

Last synced: 11 months ago

All Time

Total Commits: 26,066
Total Committers: 77
Avg Commits per committer: 338.519
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.389

Past Year

Commits: 225
Committers: 15
Avg Commits per committer: 15.0
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.689

Top Committers

Name	Email	Commits
Paul Wessel	p**l@h**u	15,939
Joaquim Luis	j**s@g**m	4,149
Remko Scharroo	r**o@e**t	2,678
Dongdong Tian	s**o@g**m	1,400
Florian Wobbe	f**n@e**e	760
Meghan Jones	m**j@a**u	191
Roger Davis	r****s	133
dependabot[bot]	4****]	128
Federico Esteban	f**n@g**m	100
anbj	2****j	99
Meghan Jones	m**j@h**u	89
Michael Chandler	m**l@h**u	67
Ben Horner-Johnson	b****n	67
Yvonne Fröhlich	9****h	48
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson	j**i@j**g	42
KristofKoch	4****h	29
Leonardo Uieda	l**a@g**m	21
Walter H. F. Smith	w**h@n**v	16
abanbj	2****j	10
Will Schlitzer	s**0@g**m	9
Michael Grund	2****d	6
王亮	w**2@g**m	5
Lloyd Parkes	l****d	4
Olivier Sarzeaud	s**d@e**r	4
Wei Ji	2****4	4
holishing	h**t@g**m	4
Mao Zhou	1**3@q**m	4
Marcin Rajner	m**r@w**l	3
Yao Jiayuan	c**m@g**m	3
Bas Couwenberg	s**c@x**l	3
and 47 more...

Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)

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Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time

Total issues: 399
Total pull requests: 999
Average time to close issues: 9 months
Average time to close pull requests: 14 days
Total issue authors: 65
Total pull request authors: 26
Average comments per issue: 4.05
Average comments per pull request: 1.79
Merged pull requests: 897
Bot issues: 57
Bot pull requests: 88

Past Year

Issues: 65
Pull requests: 237
Average time to close issues: 6 days
Average time to close pull requests: 2 days
Issue authors: 24
Pull request authors: 13
Average comments per issue: 1.63
Average comments per pull request: 1.18
Merged pull requests: 198
Bot issues: 7
Bot pull requests: 33

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Top Authors

Issue Authors

PaulWessel (58)
joa-quim (56)
github-actions[bot] (55)
Esteban82 (50)
seisman (37)
rbdavis (24)
anbj (13)
jidanni (12)
maxrjones (11)
yvonnefroehlich (9)
KristofKoch (4)
MarceloBanik (4)
gd-a (3)
ZMAlt (3)
weiji14 (3)

Pull Request Authors

PaulWessel (293)
rbdavis (157)
seisman (147)
joa-quim (143)
dependabot[bot] (87)
yvonnefroehlich (46)
Esteban82 (44)
anbj (23)
Dengda98 (15)
remkos (14)
jidanni (6)
maxrjones (4)
michaelgrund (3)
CovMat (2)
gsitcia (2)

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Issue Labels

bug (169) feature request (108) documentation (36) longterm (12) maintenance (9) discussion (6) priority (3) enhancement (3) help wanted (2) add-changelog (2) good first issue (2) question (1)

Pull Request Labels

maintenance (181) documentation (166) bug (104) add-changelog (85) enhancement (77) new core module feature (9) new feature (8) deprecation (5) new module (4) supplement update (3) need-review (3) priority (2) longterm (1) feature request (1) discussion (1)

Packages

Total packages: 1
Total downloads: unknown

Total dependent packages: 2
Total dependent repositories: 37
Total versions: 13

conda-forge.org: gmt

GMT is an open source collection of about 80 command-line tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing PostScript illustrations ranging from simple x–y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3D perspective views; the GMT supplements add another 40 more specialized and discipline-specific tools. GMT supports over 30 map projections and transformations

Homepage: https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org
License: LGPL-3.0-or-later
Latest release: 6.4.0
published over 3 years ago

Versions: 13
Dependent Packages: 2
Dependent Repositories: 37

Rankings

Dependent repos count: 5.9%

Forks count: 9.9%

Average: 12.5%

Stargazers count: 14.6%

Dependent packages count: 19.6%

Last synced: 6 months ago

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gmt

Science Score: 77.0%

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Generic Mapping Tools

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