From jeevanthanal at gmail.com Sat Jan 12 12:48:03 2019 From: jeevanthanal at gmail.com (Jeevan U.) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 07:18:03 +0530 Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Gplate model in GMT Message-ID: I will be thankful if you can help me to plot my Gplate model in GMT. (Any helpful material or gmt script). Like how to convert my rot file and how to use it in grdrotator, how to show a particular plate or area, how to specify that area in gmt, how to give new location lat long in psbasemap? Etc Thank you -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.cannon at sydney.edu.au Mon Jan 14 16:12:56 2019 From: john.cannon at sydney.edu.au (John Cannon) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 05:12:56 +0000 Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Gplate model in GMT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Jeevan, By the way, you can export time snapshots of reconstructed geometries (like coastlines) and reconstructed rasters in GPlates prior to plotting in GMT. Geometries can be exported to GMT (.xy) format, and numerical rasters to GMT gridded format (netCDF), both of which can be used by GMT. Or just export rasters in generic colour formats like JPEG, PNG. www.gplates.org/user-manual/Export.html Regards, John From: GPlates-discuss On Behalf Of Jeevan U. Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2019 12:48 PM To: gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Gplate model in GMT I will be thankful if you can help me to plot my Gplate model in GMT. (Any helpful material or gmt script). Like how to convert my rot file and how to use it in grdrotator, how to show a particular plate or area, how to specify that area in gmt, how to give new location lat long in psbasemap? Etc Thank you -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sabin.zahirovic at sydney.edu.au Mon Jan 14 16:17:03 2019 From: sabin.zahirovic at sydney.edu.au (Sabin Zahirovic) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 05:17:03 +0000 Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Gplate model in GMT In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4D9E81B6-AD7B-4E35-A702-9D36607E4AB0@sydney.edu.au> Hi Jeevan, John and team, I will upload some of my GPlates-GMT plotting scripts to GitHub in the coming days, and can also add a note on the GPlates tutorials site pointing people to it. Perhaps it can be a temporary placeholder until we get a Research Assistant to put together a basic tutorial. I?ll send out another e-mail when those scripts are online (am swamped with various things today and the next couple of days). Cheers, Sabin -- DR SABIN ZAHIROVIC | Postdoctoral Research Associate School of Geosciences | Faculty of Science THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY (Note, I am on parental leave every Friday.) 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From: GPlates-discuss on behalf of John Cannon Reply-To: GPlates general discussion mailing list Date: Monday, 14 January 2019 at 4:13 pm To: GPlates general discussion mailing list Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] Gplate model in GMT Hi Jeevan, By the way, you can export time snapshots of reconstructed geometries (like coastlines) and reconstructed rasters in GPlates prior to plotting in GMT. Geometries can be exported to GMT (.xy) format, and numerical rasters to GMT gridded format (netCDF), both of which can be used by GMT. Or just export rasters in generic colour formats like JPEG, PNG. www.gplates.org/user-manual/Export.html Regards, John From: GPlates-discuss On Behalf Of Jeevan U. Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2019 12:48 PM To: gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Gplate model in GMT I will be thankful if you can help me to plot my Gplate model in GMT. (Any helpful material or gmt script). Like how to convert my rot file and how to use it in grdrotator, how to show a particular plate or area, how to specify that area in gmt, how to give new location lat long in psbasemap? Etc Thank you -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeevanthanal at gmail.com Mon Jan 14 16:42:08 2019 From: jeevanthanal at gmail.com (Jeevan U.) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:12:08 +0530 Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Gplate model in GMT In-Reply-To: <4D9E81B6-AD7B-4E35-A702-9D36607E4AB0@sydney.edu.au> References: <4D9E81B6-AD7B-4E35-A702-9D36607E4AB0@sydney.edu.au> Message-ID: Thank you Sabin and John, Please share the GitHub link ones you uploaded. It will be great if you can share any sample scripts to my email address since it is very urgent. Or I will wait until you upload it. Jeevan U. Research Assistant Dept of Atmospheric Sciences | Cochin University of Science & Technology Lakeside Campus Fine Arts Avenue Cochin 682 016 t: +91 9656525676 m: +91 9496655676 e: jeevanthanal at gmail.com www.cusat.ac.in [image: Facebook icon] [image: Youtbue icon] The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the future. [image: Mailtrack] Sender notified by Mailtrack 14/01/19, 11:09:38 AM On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 10:47, Sabin Zahirovic wrote: > Hi Jeevan, John and team, > > > > I will upload some of my GPlates-GMT plotting scripts to GitHub in the > coming days, and can also add a note on the GPlates tutorials site pointing > people to it. 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URL: From cscotese at gmail.com Thu Jan 17 12:57:22 2019 From: cscotese at gmail.com (Christopher Scotese) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:57:22 -0600 Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Scotese's Suggestions for GPlates - Any comments? Message-ID: Dear GPlates Community, After using GPLates for ~10 years, I have come up with a short list of things that would make map-making a little easier (for me & maybe others, as well). I will be using GPlates extensively to produce the figures for my book, "Evolution of the Earth System". I thought I would run these suggestions by the GPlates community, for your comments (can this be done already some other way?) and support (would you also like to see this functionalty implemented?). I woudl be happy to answer any questions concerning my suggestions. Best Regards, Chris +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Scotese's top 4 suggestions/requests are: Not very important 1. It would be nice to be able to set the transparency (opacity) of line work as well as filled polygons. Justification: Why not? 2. At the moment the "camera" location is ignored when changing to flat projections (like Mercator, Mollweide, etc.). It would be useful if the camera location could be used to make "oblique" projections, i.e. a polar Mollweide projection centered on 90N, 180E or transverse Mercator Projections. Justification: Provides many more cartographic options. Potential Complication: Graticule would need to be rotated as well (or not shown). An enhancement useful for data management (delete & copy). 3. Currently the "select" (Feature Inspection) tool, only selects one geographic element at a time. It would be useful if: -"shift - select (click)" selected all geographic elements with the *same plate ID*. and -"control - select (click)" selected all geographic elements with *identical attribute information.* Jusrification: With these modifications it would be much easier to delete or copy multiple geographic elements. At the moment, deletions/copies must be done one at a time. Very tedious. A new tool useful for "adjusting" geographic data. (This one is a little bit of a mind bender!). 4. Right now there are very useful tools to move, insert, or delete vertices in existing geographic elements. But sometimes I want to slightly *adjust the position of an entire geographic feature* - just a little. For example, say I have a shapefile of a modern outcrop belt, but for some reason the shapefile is offset/misplaced from where it should be. I would like to select the shapefile and "move it" (i.e. rotate it) to where it should be. This feature would behave like the "rotate" tool in Photoshop or Illustrator. I would envision that this tool would be located below the "split feature" icon in the "choose feature" menu. It would look like the "view" icon - it might be called the "adjust" icon. Basically, you would select the feature to "adjust", then hit the "adjust" feature icon. This would allow you to freely move (i.e. rotate) the entire feature. When you got it where you wanted it to be, you would then need to confirm the changes by hitting an "Adjustment OK" button- sort of like the "Create Feature"button. Then (point of no return) all the vertices in the selected feature would be overwritten with their new geographic coordinates. Justification: At present there is no way to do this sort of adjustment, which means either redigitizing the feature or adjusting the feature, vertex by vertex. Prof. Christopher R. Scotese, Director, PALEOMAP Project 134 Dodge, Evanston Illinois 60202, 817 914 7090 (cell) *I know this is a long signature, but I think you'll enjoy the treasures hidden within.* Wow! Check out the interactive paleoglobes at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/X3LwC81Zj6tNZq9ESnZRkc?domain=dinosaurpictures.org. You can see where your home was located at the time of the Permo-Triassic extinction or any other time in Earth History. Digital elevation models of all of the paleogeographic maps are now available at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nIpBC91ZkQt4gq8DtEFX2X?domain=earthbyte.org Maps and software can be freely downloaded at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/H_mmC0YZWVFNDBjpS2Si8i?domain=earthbyte.org View Scotese animations at: https://www.youtube.com/user/cscotese Paleogeographic Atlases can be downloaded at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zO-uCgZowLHExy8Dc31x23?domain=uta.academia.edu Map Folios for different time periods can be downloaded at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/hHhxCjZrzqHoMmgVc1ZjO2?domain=uta.academia.edu An archive of Scotese publications can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Scotese3 Download Google Earth (kml) versions of maps at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0XjFCk8vAZt26BgPS8l9a6?domain=globalgeology.com Download Scotese CV with links to publications: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WT2KClxwB5CR5ELjHVP81j?domain=uta.academia.edu Lecture given at the Geological Society of London on October, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVGFv-1Wqc&feature=youtu.be Hear Chris play the "Paleogeographer's Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qesJYbwKtY "Sailing away on uncharted seas, who knows what we might find. You needn't go far to take this trip because the journey's through your mind." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.cannon at sydney.edu.au Fri Jan 18 01:24:13 2019 From: john.cannon at sydney.edu.au (John Cannon) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:24:13 +0000 Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Scotese's Suggestions for GPlates - Any comments? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Chris, Thanks for your suggestions. In terms of current plans? There?s a symbology plan (that?s been on paper for a while) for more flexible control over points/lines/fill/etc. Same with selecting multiple features. The SHIFT-click to select all geometries with same plate ID sounds good ? although currently SHIFT-click shows properties of selected feature ? however what you suggest sounds more useful (and we could eventually add more SHIFT-click choices besides ?select all geometries with same plate ID?). For CTRL-click, it might be good to save this for incrementally adding a feature to the selection (ie, the user CTRL-clicks multiple features to build up selection). Just to be clear, currently the ?camera location? places moves the specified lat/lon to the centre of the viewport (for both the 3D globe view and the 2D projection views). I guess the ?move geometry? tool sounds similar to the Modify Reconstruction Pole tool, except you?re modifying the present-day position of a geometry instead of its rotation. That sounds useful. Regards, John From: GPlates-discuss On Behalf Of Christopher Scotese Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2019 12:57 PM To: gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Scotese's Suggestions for GPlates - Any comments? Dear GPlates Community, After using GPLates for ~10 years, I have come up with a short list of things that would make map-making a little easier (for me & maybe others, as well). I will be using GPlates extensively to produce the figures for my book, "Evolution of the Earth System". I thought I would run these suggestions by the GPlates community, for your comments (can this be done already some other way?) and support (would you also like to see this functionalty implemented?). I woudl be happy to answer any questions concerning my suggestions. Best Regards, Chris +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Scotese's top 4 suggestions/requests are: Not very important 1. It would be nice to be able to set the transparency (opacity) of line work as well as filled polygons. Justification: Why not? 2. At the moment the "camera" location is ignored when changing to flat projections (like Mercator, Mollweide, etc.). It would be useful if the camera location could be used to make "oblique" projections, i.e. a polar Mollweide projection centered on 90N, 180E or transverse Mercator Projections. Justification: Provides many more cartographic options. Potential Complication: Graticule would need to be rotated as well (or not shown). An enhancement useful for data management (delete & copy). 3. Currently the "select" (Feature Inspection) tool, only selects one geographic element at a time. It would be useful if: -"shift - select (click)" selected all geographic elements with the same plate ID. and -"control - select (click)" selected all geographic elements with identical attribute information. Jusrification: With these modifications it would be much easier to delete or copy multiple geographic elements. At the moment, deletions/copies must be done one at a time. Very tedious. A new tool useful for "adjusting" geographic data. (This one is a little bit of a mind bender!). 4. Right now there are very useful tools to move, insert, or delete vertices in existing geographic elements. But sometimes I want to slightly adjust the position of an entire geographic feature - just a little. For example, say I have a shapefile of a modern outcrop belt, but for some reason the shapefile is offset/misplaced from where it should be. I would like to select the shapefile and "move it" (i.e. rotate it) to where it should be. This feature would behave like the "rotate" tool in Photoshop or Illustrator. I would envision that this tool would be located below the "split feature" icon in the "choose feature" menu. It would look like the "view" icon - it might be called the "adjust" icon. Basically, you would select the feature to "adjust", then hit the "adjust" feature icon. This would allow you to freely move (i.e. rotate) the entire feature. When you got it where you wanted it to be, you would then need to confirm the changes by hitting an "Adjustment OK" button- sort of like the "Create Feature"button. Then (point of no return) all the vertices in the selected feature would be overwritten with their new geographic coordinates. Justification: At present there is no way to do this sort of adjustment, which means either redigitizing the feature or adjusting the feature, vertex by vertex. Prof. Christopher R. Scotese, Director, PALEOMAP Project 134 Dodge, Evanston Illinois 60202, 817 914 7090 (cell) I know this is a long signature, but I think you'll enjoy the treasures hidden within. Wow! Check out the interactive paleoglobes at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/a3WaCOMxNyt1pW0xhExlD1?domain=dinosaurpictures.org. You can see where your home was located at the time of the Permo-Triassic extinction or any other time in Earth History. Digital elevation models of all of the paleogeographic maps are now available at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/B3EmCP7yOZtzKpoXi0Vudv?domain=earthbyte.org Maps and software can be freely downloaded at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RrOcCQnzP0tvk03PSMvrmc?domain=earthbyte.org View Scotese animations at: https://www.youtube.com/user/cscotese Paleogeographic Atlases can be downloaded at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/APegCROAQot4v2RWHO86Pn?domain=uta.academia.edu Map Folios for different time periods can be downloaded at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/7_O3CVAGXPtqxG5yhQxqyK?domain=uta.academia.edu An archive of Scotese publications can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Scotese3 Download Google Earth (kml) versions of maps at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6EkbCWLJY7ir5JPqtpv9NO?domain=globalgeology.com Download Scotese CV with links to publications: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ThkzCXLKZoiEXwqKs7XXu4?domain=uta.academia.edu Lecture given at the Geological Society of London on October, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVGFv-1Wqc&feature=youtu.be Hear Chris play the "Paleogeographer's Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qesJYbwKtY "Sailing away on uncharted seas, who knows what we might find. You needn't go far to take this trip because the journey's through your mind." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Christian.Heine at shell.com Fri Jan 18 02:55:29 2019 From: Christian.Heine at shell.com (Christian.Heine at shell.com) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:55:29 +0000 Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Scotese's Suggestions for GPlates - Any comments? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi John & Chris, seconding the "shift click" multiple feature select option proposed by Chris. I think 'shift click' on most OSs is mapped to "select multiple items", so it seems logical to me. Re the "move/morph" features tool: That exact functionality is available readily in other GIS software such as QGIS (qgis.org) or ArcGis. In QGIS you can find the tools under the "advanced editing toolbox" which allows to rotate/move features. The only problem there is that this will not work with feature collections in *.gpml format - so all your data needs to be in ESRI *.shp format. Cheers, Christian From: GPlates-discuss On Behalf Of John Cannon Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2019 3:24 PM To: GPlates general discussion mailing list Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] Scotese's Suggestions for GPlates - Any comments? Hi Chris, Thanks for your suggestions. In terms of current plans? There?s a symbology plan (that?s been on paper for a while) for more flexible control over points/lines/fill/etc. Same with selecting multiple features. The SHIFT-click to select all geometries with same plate ID sounds good ? although currently SHIFT-click shows properties of selected feature ? however what you suggest sounds more useful (and we could eventually add more SHIFT-click choices besides ?select all geometries with same plate ID?). For CTRL-click, it might be good to save this for incrementally adding a feature to the selection (ie, the user CTRL-clicks multiple features to build up selection). Just to be clear, currently the ?camera location? places moves the specified lat/lon to the centre of the viewport (for both the 3D globe view and the 2D projection views). I guess the ?move geometry? tool sounds similar to the Modify Reconstruction Pole tool, except you?re modifying the present-day position of a geometry instead of its rotation. That sounds useful. Regards, John From: GPlates-discuss On Behalf Of Christopher Scotese Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2019 12:57 PM To: gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Scotese's Suggestions for GPlates - Any comments? Dear GPlates Community, After using GPLates for ~10 years, I have come up with a short list of things that would make map-making a little easier (for me & maybe others, as well). I will be using GPlates extensively to produce the figures for my book, "Evolution of the Earth System". I thought I would run these suggestions by the GPlates community, for your comments (can this be done already some other way?) and support (would you also like to see this functionalty implemented?). I woudl be happy to answer any questions concerning my suggestions. Best Regards, Chris +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Scotese's top 4 suggestions/requests are: Not very important 1. It would be nice to be able to set the transparency (opacity) of line work as well as filled polygons. Justification: Why not? 2. At the moment the "camera" location is ignored when changing to flat projections (like Mercator, Mollweide, etc.). It would be useful if the camera location could be used to make "oblique" projections, i.e. a polar Mollweide projection centered on 90N, 180E or transverse Mercator Projections. Justification: Provides many more cartographic options. Potential Complication: Graticule would need to be rotated as well (or not shown). An enhancement useful for data management (delete & copy). 3. Currently the "select" (Feature Inspection) tool, only selects one geographic element at a time. It would be useful if: -"shift - select (click)" selected all geographic elements with the same plate ID. and -"control - select (click)" selected all geographic elements with identical attribute information. Jusrification: With these modifications it would be much easier to delete or copy multiple geographic elements. At the moment, deletions/copies must be done one at a time. Very tedious. A new tool useful for "adjusting" geographic data. (This one is a little bit of a mind bender!). 4. Right now there are very useful tools to move, insert, or delete vertices in existing geographic elements. But sometimes I want to slightly adjust the position of an entire geographic feature - just a little. For example, say I have a shapefile of a modern outcrop belt, but for some reason the shapefile is offset/misplaced from where it should be. I would like to select the shapefile and "move it" (i.e. rotate it) to where it should be. This feature would behave like the "rotate" tool in Photoshop or Illustrator. I would envision that this tool would be located below the "split feature" icon in the "choose feature" menu. It would look like the "view" icon - it might be called the "adjust" icon. Basically, you would select the feature to "adjust", then hit the "adjust" feature icon. This would allow you to freely move (i.e. rotate) the entire feature. When you got it where you wanted it to be, you would then need to confirm the changes by hitting an "Adjustment OK" button- sort of like the "Create Feature"button. Then (point of no return) all the vertices in the selected feature would be overwritten with their new geographic coordinates. Justification: At present there is no way to do this sort of adjustment, which means either redigitizing the feature or adjusting the feature, vertex by vertex. Prof. Christopher R. Scotese, Director, PALEOMAP Project 134 Dodge, Evanston Illinois 60202, 817 914 7090 (cell) I know this is a long signature, but I think you'll enjoy the treasures hidden within. Wow! Check out the interactive paleoglobes at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/2CaxCZYM2VFKM5OYsz6d7g?domain=dinosaurpictures.org. You can see where your home was located at the time of the Permo-Triassic extinction or any other time in Earth History. Digital elevation models of all of the paleogeographic maps are now available at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DwYNC2xZYvC5kpnQFBtjNx?domain=earthbyte.org Maps and software can be freely downloaded at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/y-ZVC4QZ1RF4JBLxhVfeyU?domain=earthbyte.org View Scotese animations at: https://www.youtube.com/user/cscotese Paleogeographic Atlases can be downloaded at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pnRmC71ZgLtGmA3Ys2cR-g?domain=uta.academia.edu Map Folios for different time periods can be downloaded at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/iwe-C91ZkQt4mkojhQFoDt?domain=uta.academia.edu An archive of Scotese publications can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Scotese3 Download Google Earth (kml) versions of maps at: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/H4ytCjZrzqHojnp0cJw_IT?domain=globalgeology.com Download Scotese CV with links to publications: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/p5b9ClxwB5CRo2glS4VnmR?domain=uta.academia.edu Lecture given at the Geological Society of London on October, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVGFv-1Wqc&feature=youtu.be Hear Chris play the "Paleogeographer's Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qesJYbwKtY "Sailing away on uncharted seas, who knows what we might find. You needn't go far to take this trip because the journey's through your mind." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cscotese at gmail.com Fri Jan 18 03:54:13 2019 From: cscotese at gmail.com (Christopher Scotese) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:54:13 -0600 Subject: [GPlates-discuss] GPlates-discuss Digest, Vol 52, Issue 4 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: John & Christian Thanks for your comments and support. See my interlinear replies. Regards, Chris > Hi John & Chris, > > seconding the "shift click" multiple feature select option proposed by > Chris. I think 'shift click' on most OSs is mapped to "select multiple > items", so it seems logical to me. > Thanks! > > Re the "move/morph" features tool: That exact functionality is available > readily in other GIS software such as QGIS (qgis.org) or ArcGis. In QGIS > you can find the tools under the "advanced editing toolbox" which allows to > rotate/move features. The only problem there is that this will not work > with feature collections in *.gpml format - so all your data needs to be in > ESRI *.shp format. > The GIS function is a 2D rotation/transform. I am suggesting a 3D rotation. > > Cheers, > Christian > > > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for your suggestions. > > In terms of current plans? There?s a symbology plan (that?s been on paper > for a while) for more flexible control over points/lines/fill/etc. Same > with selecting multiple features. > Good to hear. I have developed some code to plot (non-distorting) text, numbers, & symbols on the globe (see attached image). You are welcome to use it. > > The SHIFT-click to select all geometries with same plate ID sounds good ? > although currently SHIFT-click shows properties of selected feature ? > however what you suggest sounds more useful (and we could eventually add > more SHIFT-click choices besides ?select all geometries with same plate > ID?). For CTRL-click, it might be good to save this for incrementally > adding a feature to the selection (ie, the user CTRL-clicks multiple > features to build up selection). > This all sounds good. > > Just to be clear, currently the ?camera location? places moves the > specified lat/lon to the centre of the viewport (for both the 3D globe view > and the 2D projection views). > Right now the camera location shifts the 2D geometry. What I am suggesting is to substitute the camera location for the " 0, 0" (origin) of the map projection. > > I guess the ?move geometry? tool sounds similar to the Modify > Reconstruction Pole tool, except you?re modifying the present-day position > of a geometry instead of its rotation. That sounds useful. > Exactly! It would be nice of the resulting total finite rotation pole that was used in the transformation was accessible to user (but not required). > > Regards, > John > > From: GPlates-discuss On > Behalf Of Christopher Scotese > Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2019 12:57 PM > To: gplates-discuss at mailman.sydney.edu.au > Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Scotese's Suggestions for GPlates - Any > comments? > > Dear GPlates Community, > > After using GPLates for ~10 years, I have come up with a short list of > things that would make map-making a little easier (for me & maybe others, > as well). I will be using GPlates extensively to produce the figures for my > book, "Evolution of the Earth System". > > I thought I would run these suggestions by the GPlates community, for your > comments (can this be done already some other way?) and support (would you > also like to see this functionalty implemented?). > > I would be happy to answer any questions concerning my suggestions. > > Best Regards, > > Chris > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Scotese's top 4 suggestions/requests are: > > Not very important > 1. It would be nice to be able to set the transparency (opacity) of line > work as well as filled polygons. > Justification: Why not? > > 2. At the moment the "camera" location is ignored when changing to flat > projections (like Mercator, Mollweide, etc.). It would be useful if the > camera location could be used to make "oblique" projections, i.e. a polar > Mollweide projection centered on 90N, 180E or transverse Mercator > Projections. > Justification: Provides many more cartographic options. > Potential Complication: Graticule would need to be rotated as well (or not > shown). > > An enhancement useful for data management (delete & copy). > 3. Currently the "select" (Feature Inspection) tool, only selects one > geographic element at a time. It would be useful if: > -"shift - select (click)" selected all geographic elements with the same > plate ID. > and > -"control - select (click)" selected all geographic elements with > identical attribute information. > > Jusrification: With these modifications it would be much easier to delete > or copy multiple geographic elements. At the moment, deletions/copies must > be done one at a time. Very tedious. > > A new tool useful for "adjusting" geographic data. (This one is a little > bit of a mind bender!). > 4. Right now there are very useful tools to move, insert, or delete > vertices in existing geographic elements. But sometimes I want to slightly > adjust the position of an entire geographic feature - just a little. For > example, say I have a shapefile of a modern outcrop belt, but for some > reason the shapefile is offset/misplaced from where it should be. I would > like to select the shapefile and "move it" (i.e. rotate it) to where it > should be. > This feature would behave like the "rotate" tool in Photoshop or > Illustrator. > > I would envision that this tool would be located below the "split feature" > icon in the "choose feature" menu. It would look like the "view" icon - it > might be called the "adjust" icon. > Basically, you would select the feature to "adjust", then hit the "adjust" > feature icon. This would allow you to freely move (i.e. rotate) the entire > feature. When you got it where you wanted it to be, you would then need to > confirm the changes by hitting an "Adjustment OK" button- sort of like the > "Create Feature"button. Then (point of no return) all the vertices in the > selected feature would be overwritten with their new geographic coordinates. > > Justification: At present there is no way to do this sort of adjustment, > which means either redigitizing the feature or adjusting the feature, > vertex by vertex. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Map19_7200_80.png Type: image/png Size: 2793740 bytes Desc: not available URL: