The GMT team and other volunteers teach user and developer workshops in various places. Here is a list of past and future locations.
Attending a workshop is the best way to get started using and developing GMT!
Title: Making Maps and Movies with the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)
Instructors: Paul Wessel, TBD
When: June 21 (Sunday), 2020. 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Where: University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI, USA
Repository: TBD
URL: https://goldschmidt.info/2020/eventTypeView?type=354#event2018000175
The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is widely used in the geosciences to make graphs, maps and animations. This one-day workshop introduces participants to GMT 6 modern mode and how data manipulation and plotting of points, lines, polygons, text, and grids are accomplished via GMT scripting. We will run GMT scripts from the command line in a bash terminal under Linux, macOS, or Windows; familiarity with a UNIX shell will be helpful but not required. We will also introduce participants to the making of basic animations using GMT. No prior experience with GMT is required. Attendees must bring laptops with pre-installed software to the workshop – instructions will be provided before the conference.
Title: Become a Generic Mapping Tools Contributor Even If You Can’t Code
Instructors: Paul Wessel, Joaquim Luis, Leonardo Uieda, Dongdong Tian, Xiaohua Xu
When: Sunday, 08 December 2019 08:00 am -12:20 pm (PST)
Where: AGU 2019 Fall Meeting | Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
Website: https://www.agu.org/Events/SCIWS4-Generic-Mapping-Tools
We will teach you how to join the GMT developer community and make contributions to the project EVEN IF YOU CAN’T CODE. This workshop will provide hands-on experience: we will guide you through setting up your computer, building GMT, writing documentation, and using git and GitHub to work on GMT development in a friendly and collaborative environment.
Title: PyGMT for geoscientists - A PyData compatible package for analyzing and plotting time-series and gridded data
Instructors: Wei Ji Leong
When: Tuesday Nov 12, 13:30 - 17:00 (NZDT)
Where: Rutherford House 205, Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Website: https://2019.foss4g-oceania.org/schedule/2019-11-12?sessionId=SPGUQV
Repository: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/foss4g2019oceania
This hands-on workshop covers the use of PyGMT to analyze geospatial data and produce publication quality figures and animations in an interactive Jupyter lab environment. There will also be a free Community Day code sprint on 2019-11-15 where everyone is invited to join and contribute into making PyGMT even better!
Title: The Generic Mapping Tools for Geodesy
Instructors: Paul Wessel, Joaquim Luis, Leonardo Uieda, Dongdong Tian, Xiaohua Xu
When: July 22-23 (Monday-Tuesday), 2019. 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA
Repository: https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/2019-unavco-course
This 2-day course will cover the use of Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) in geodesy using UNIX shell scripting. Lectures and exercises will be given to teach the basic conventions of using GMT, such as plotting grids, images, and vector data (points, lines, polygons).