Open hazardgoat opened 3 years ago
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maxrjones
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3 years ago Thanks for opening this issue. I agree that this would be a helpful example. Do you have a dataset in mind for the example that you would like added to pygmt.datasets? Ideal datasets for examples are relatively small and open source.
hazardgoat
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3 years ago @meghanrjones The dataset I had in mind is a geologic map of the US state of California, provided by the California Geological Survey here. As it is a map provided by the state government for the public, I should think that it is freely available for non commercial use. The polygon file itself is ~47.6MB after conversion from .shp to .gmt. I think this would be a good dataset as it is in the vein of what would used in a professional project.
weiji14
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3 years ago Similar to https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmtserver-admin/issues/100, should we move this issue to https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmtserver-admin @meghanrjones? Since this would be of benefit to GMT users as well.
seisman
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2 years ago I don't think this geological unit dataset should be added to the GMT server, because this dataset only provides data for a small region (California in the US), while all other GMT datasets have global data coverage.
@hazardgoat's geologic map is a great example and definitely should be added to the gallery, but it would be better if a smaller dataset can be used.
seisman
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2 years ago This page (https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/) lists some geological datasets of US states. Dataset for some states (e.g., Mississippi) is small and should be good to be used in the example.
What do you think?
Description of the desired feature I would like a geologic unit dataset to be added to pygmt.datasets. After receiving help on the forums for plotting a geologic map, I'd like to contribute what I learned to the example gallery for how to use fig.plot to color polygons by the values in a column. However the PyGMT Contributors Guide says that examples should use data from pygmt.datasets.
Are you willing to help implement and maintain this feature? Yes/No I am willing to contribute whatever I'm able to bringing this about and maintaining it across new PyGMT releases, though I admit my coding experience is limited.