The Origins of the Generic Mapping Tools: From Table Tennis to Geoscience

Abstract The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is one of the most used toolsets in the Earth, Ocean, and Planetary sciences, originating as far back as the 1980s. It is an early example of an open‐source software code modeled after contemporaneous UNIX tools, and it was one of the first to employ PostScri...

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Main Author: Paul Wessel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-12-01
Series:Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023CN000231
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