Re: Extracting central beam from ASCII XYZ bathymetry

Dear Paul,

If I understand you correctly, the path I can get via Google Earth (GEpath)
can be used afterwards with gmtselect:

gmtselect multibeam.xyz -Ldist/GEpath -fg > central_beam.xyz

Right?

Thank you and best wishes

Juan


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Paul Wessel <[email protected]> wrote:

> If all you have a triplets of xyz with not sequence info (time) then you
> are kind of stuck.  I guess I would try this:
>
> plot the points using psxy with some CPT for the z values, then turn into
> a PNG for Google Earth.  Then load it into Google Earth and eyeball where
> you think the center line might be and create that track using the GE
> tools, then save as KML and kml2gmt to get the path.
>
> -p
>

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