From sabin.zahirovic at sydney.edu.au  Mon Mar  5 13:18:36 2018
From: sabin.zahirovic at sydney.edu.au (Sabin Zahirovic)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 02:18:36 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field
 in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported
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Hi Tao,

I could not see the attachments. Were they stripped off by the mailing list?

Also, what export settings/option did you use for the velocity export?

Cheers,
Sabin

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From: GPlates-discuss <gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au> on behalf of Tao Zhu <zxl_tao at 126.com>
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Subject: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

Hi everyone,
My name is Tao Zhu, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. I used GPlates to export plate motion velocity at 0 Ma. I found that the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) is very different from that I exported (right picture). Who can help me out?

Error! Filename not specified.Error! Filename not specified.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Tao Zhu





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From john.cannon at sydney.edu.au  Mon Mar  5 15:27:13 2018
From: john.cannon at sydney.edu.au (John Cannon)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 04:27:13 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field
 in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported
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?attached are the missing pictures.


From: GPlates-discuss [mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au] On Behalf Of Sabin Zahirovic
Sent: Monday, 5 March 2018 1:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

Hi Tao,

I could not see the attachments. Were they stripped off by the mailing list?

Also, what export settings/option did you use for the velocity export?

Cheers,
Sabin

--
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From: GPlates-discuss <gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au<mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au>> on behalf of Tao Zhu <zxl_tao at 126.com<mailto:zxl_tao at 126.com>>
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Subject: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

Hi everyone,
My name is Tao Zhu, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. I used GPlates to export plate motion velocity at 0 Ma. I found that the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) is very different from that I exported (right picture). Who can help me out?

Error! Filename not specified.Error! Filename not specified.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Tao Zhu




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From sabin.zahirovic at sydney.edu.au  Mon Mar  5 15:37:04 2018
From: sabin.zahirovic at sydney.edu.au (Sabin Zahirovic)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 04:37:04 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field
 in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported
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Hi Tao and John,

John, thanks for sending the pictures!

Tao, it looks like the arrows might be offset by about 90 degrees CCW in your panel, most obvious in the Australian region. There are different output options from GPlates, including:
-180/180 degrees anticlockwise from West
0 to 360 degrees clockwise from North (-SV option in gmt psxy)

I use the second option, and in GMT I use this line for plotting:
GMT4: psxy -R$frame -J$proj -Bg30 -W0.1p $input_velocity -SV0.005c/0.12c/0.05c -: -G0 -K -O -V >> $outfile
GMT5: gmt psxy -R$frame -J$proj -W0.3p $input_velocity -SV0.1c+e+g -: -G0 -K -O -V >> $outfile

Keep in mind that GMT expects a certain column order: lon, lat, direction, speed. In addition, there?s a difference between -SV and -Sv in psxy, in case you?re using GMT to plot?

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Sabin

--
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School of Geosciences | Faculty of Science


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From: GPlates-discuss <gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au> on behalf of John Cannon <john.cannon at sydney.edu.au>
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Date: Monday, 5 March 2018 at 3:28 pm
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Cc: Tao Zhu <zxl_tao at 126.com>
Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

?attached are the missing pictures.


From: GPlates-discuss [mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au] On Behalf Of Sabin Zahirovic
Sent: Monday, 5 March 2018 1:19 PM
To: GPlates general discussion mailing list
Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

Hi Tao,

I could not see the attachments. Were they stripped off by the mailing list?

Also, what export settings/option did you use for the velocity export?

Cheers,
Sabin

--
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From: GPlates-discuss <gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au<mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au>> on behalf of Tao Zhu <zxl_tao at 126.com<mailto:zxl_tao at 126.com>>
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Date: Monday, 5 March 2018 at 12:58 pm
To: "gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au<mailto:gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au>" <gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au<mailto:gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au>>
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

Hi everyone,
My name is Tao Zhu, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. I used GPlates to export plate motion velocity at 0 Ma. I found that the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) is very different from that I exported (right picture). Who can help me out?

Error! Filename not specified.Error! Filename not specified.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Tao Zhu





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From john.cannon at sydney.edu.au  Tue Mar  6 13:22:31 2018
From: john.cannon at sydney.edu.au (John Cannon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 02:22:31 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field
 in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported
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Tao reports that the correct velocity field was exported using Sabin?s method.


Also the next release of GPlates (2.1) will export GMT velocities in the column order expected by GMT psxy (the ?-Sv? and ?-SV? options), which is:

lon lat direction speed

?in previous versions (GPlates 2.0 and prior) it is:

lon lat speed direction

? as Sabin noted, which required the user to swap columns 3 and 4 before passing to GMT psxy.

Regards,
John

From: GPlates-discuss [mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au] On Behalf Of Sabin Zahirovic
Sent: Monday, 5 March 2018 3:37 PM
To: GPlates general discussion mailing list
Cc: Tao Zhu
Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

Hi Tao and John,

John, thanks for sending the pictures!

Tao, it looks like the arrows might be offset by about 90 degrees CCW in your panel, most obvious in the Australian region. There are different output options from GPlates, including:
-180/180 degrees anticlockwise from West
0 to 360 degrees clockwise from North (-SV option in gmt psxy)

I use the second option, and in GMT I use this line for plotting:
GMT4: psxy -R$frame -J$proj -Bg30 -W0.1p $input_velocity -SV0.005c/0.12c/0.05c -: -G0 -K -O -V >> $outfile
GMT5: gmt psxy -R$frame -J$proj -W0.3p $input_velocity -SV0.1c+e+g -: -G0 -K -O -V >> $outfile

Keep in mind that GMT expects a certain column order: lon, lat, direction, speed. In addition, there?s a difference between -SV and -Sv in psxy, in case you?re using GMT to plot?

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Sabin

--
DR SABIN ZAHIROVIC | Postdoctoral Research Associate
School of Geosciences | Faculty of Science


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Rm 403, Madsen Building F09 | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006
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Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

?attached are the missing pictures.


From: GPlates-discuss [mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au] On Behalf Of Sabin Zahirovic
Sent: Monday, 5 March 2018 1:19 PM
To: GPlates general discussion mailing list
Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

Hi Tao,

I could not see the attachments. Were they stripped off by the mailing list?

Also, what export settings/option did you use for the velocity export?

Cheers,
Sabin

--
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School of Geosciences | Faculty of Science


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Subject: [GPlates-discuss] For help: why is the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) different from that I exported

Hi everyone,
My name is Tao Zhu, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration. I used GPlates to export plate motion velocity at 0 Ma. I found that the displayed velocity field in GPlates (left picture) is very different from that I exported (right picture). Who can help me out?

Error! Filename not specified.Error! Filename not specified.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Tao Zhu




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From bruce.eglington at usask.ca  Thu Mar  8 01:54:43 2018
From: bruce.eglington at usask.ca (Eglington, Bruce)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 14:54:43 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] GPlates and linking to databases
Message-ID: <56cd4a91fb324bb5b2191b2f73071eca@Mail01.usask.ca>

Good day
  Is there currently any design capability to link to tables or queries in any form of database already built in to GPlates or are the only data input options ROT, GPML, SHP, NETCDF and various raster formats? If not currently available, are there any plans to add database capabilities in the foreseeable  future?

Regards
   Bruce

Bruce Eglington (Ph.D.)
Murray Pyke Chair
Geological Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
114 Science Place
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From Christian.Heine at shell.com  Thu Mar  8 02:27:52 2018
From: Christian.Heine at shell.com (Christian.Heine at shell.com)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 15:27:52 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] GPlates and linking to databases
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Hi Bruce,

AFAIK there is no such capability, unless you'd count hooking up to a WFS server as one.

We had discussions a few years back of linking to PostGIS, but also we recently talked about the new OGC Geopackage standard (being sqlite-based I would also classify this as database, see geopackage.org) but so far this has not matured further (I think).  In theory the implementation should be relative straightforward as GPlates is already using the GDAL library (which reads PostGIS, sqlite, geopackage etc). However, the complications come in when turning relatively arbitrary database attributes/columns into the GPlates feature model (GPGIM).

I suppose some way you could go about this (thinking out loud)could be a crude combination of pyGPlates (or even using the built in Python shell) together with either the GDAL python library or something like psycopg2 to connect to your (geospatial) database (for some older project I used psycopg2+postgis/postgresql with GMT quite successfully). However, this will also require you to map the feature you import to the GPGIM. You could write some script to write out native GPML files from your DB as well to avoid the "lossy" shapefile format (ie col header truncation if > 12 chars, 255 char limits in attributes etc etc) which is the only way to bridge the ESRI world with GPlates currently.

I would very much support any effort to get GPlates and the GPGIM to read from DBs as this would also help a lot to improve the interface to commonly used GIS tools, especially in the corporate environment which somehow doesn't like open formats.

Not sure if John & co will have some surprises in this direction in the upcoming 2.1 release.

Cheers,
Christian


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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2018 3:55 PM
To: 'gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au' <gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au>
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] GPlates and linking to databases

Good day
  Is there currently any design capability to link to tables or queries in any form of database already built in to GPlates or are the only data input options ROT, GPML, SHP, NETCDF and various raster formats? If not currently available, are there any plans to add database capabilities in the foreseeable  future?

Regards
   Bruce

Bruce Eglington (Ph.D.)
Murray Pyke Chair
Geological Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
114 Science Place
Saskatoon
SK
S7N 5E2
Canada

bruce.eglington at usask.ca<mailto:bruce.eglington at usask.ca>
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:22:31 +0800
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] I met a problem in saving changed rotation files
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Hi, there,


My name is Zhangshuai Hou, and I'm from China, a new user of GPlates. When I saved the changes in the rotation files, I found there comes a bug that it can't be saved. And I can't figure out where comes this mistake. There I attached the picture captured when the bug appeared.



So, could you give me some instructions or solutions to deal with this problem?


Looking forward to hearing from you!


Best regards!


Yours, 
Zhangshuai Hou
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From john.cannon at sydney.edu.au  Tue Mar 20 12:33:32 2018
From: john.cannon at sydney.edu.au (John Cannon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 01:33:32 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] I met a problem in saving changed rotation
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Hi Zhangshuai,

This is now fixed and will be in the next public release (GPlates 2.1 due in the coming months).

It was an issue specific to saving PLATES rotation files that have Unicode characters in the filename.

Regards,
John


From: GPlates-discuss [mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au] On Behalf Of Monkey
Sent: Monday, 19 March 2018 2:23 PM
To: gplates-discuss
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] I met a problem in saving changed rotation files

Hi, there,

My name is Zhangshuai Hou, and I'm from China, a new user of GPlates. When I saved the changes in the rotation files, I found there comes a bug that it can't be saved. And I can't figure out where comes this mistake. There I attached the picture captured when the bug appeared.
[cid:image001.png at 01D3C047.A3F0E1C0]

So, could you give me some instructions or solutions to deal with this problem?

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best regards!

Yours,
Zhangshuai Hou

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From john.cannon at sydney.edu.au  Tue Mar 20 23:38:42 2018
From: john.cannon at sydney.edu.au (John Cannon)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:38:42 +0000
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] I met a problem in saving changed rotation
 files
References: <tencent_0C853CD6FB266C835243FA19573F3171A40A@qq.com>
Message-ID: <1E57973145EDFC41B1D69DE11923922801B95DC667@ex-mbx-pro-05>

> It was an issue specific to saving PLATES rotation files that have Unicode characters in the filename.

...turns out there was also a problem when loading and saving Shapefile (and related OGR formats) with non-ascii filenames (more specifically, any filename that couldn't be encoded as Latin-1). This is also now fixed and will be in GPlates 2.1.

Regards,
John

From: John Cannon
Sent: Tuesday, 20 March 2018 12:33 PM
To: gplates-discuss
Cc: 'Monkey'
Subject: RE: [GPlates-discuss] I met a problem in saving changed rotation files

Hi Zhangshuai,

This is now fixed and will be in the next public release (GPlates 2.1 due in the coming months).

It was an issue specific to saving PLATES rotation files that have Unicode characters in the filename.

Regards,
John


From: GPlates-discuss [mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au] On Behalf Of Monkey
Sent: Monday, 19 March 2018 2:23 PM
To: gplates-discuss
Subject: [GPlates-discuss] I met a problem in saving changed rotation files

Hi, there,

My name is Zhangshuai Hou, and I'm from China, a new user of GPlates. When I saved the changes in the rotation files, I found there comes a bug that it can't be saved. And I can't figure out where comes this mistake. There I attached the picture captured when the bug appeared.
[cid:image002.png at 01D3C0A3.CF73C770]

So, could you give me some instructions or solutions to deal with this problem?

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best regards!

Yours,
Zhangshuai Hou

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