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: Become a Generic Mapping Tools Contributor Even If You Can’t Code
Instructors: Paul Wessel, Joaquim Luis, Leonardo Uieda, Dongdong Tian, Xiaohua Xu
When: TBD
Where: AGU 2019 Fall Meeting | Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
Repository: TBD
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: 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).