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diff --git a/academic/GMT/README b/academic/GMT/README index d197330ec1..0ae945e4ff 100644 --- a/academic/GMT/README +++ b/academic/GMT/README @@ -10,19 +10,11 @@ H. F. Smith with help from a global set of volunteers, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. It is released under the GNU General Public License. -This requires netcdf. +GMT requires netcdf. -There are a number of different resolution coastline files available for -GMT, and their size on disk varies from <2MB (low) to 61.7MB (full). -They come in 3 separate archives: - GSHHS2.1.0_coast.tar.bz2 GSHHS2.1.0_high.tar.bz2 GSHHS2.1.0_full.tar.bz2 - -The first contains the low, intermediate and coarse resolutions, the second -the high resolution, and the third the full resolution. I prefer to have all -of them installed (disk space is cheap), but you may not. Therefore, all -three sets will be installed by default unless you choose otherwise in the -script, e.g. setting "COASTS=coast" in the environment would install only the -low, intermediate, and coarse resolutions. +With the 4.5.7 GMT release, there is only a single coastline archive to +download. Accordingly, I've modified the script to use all the coastline +data (removing the option of using only a subset of the coastline files). Please note, Shewchuk's triangulation routine used in some parts of GMT is not distributed under the GNU Public Licence. If you work for a for-profit |