Re: gmt2kml -L with a sting?

JJ-

I dont think there are an column numbers in -L.  You just have to arrange your input to be
lon lat DRFT044RR lat

and then do
gmt2kml file.gmt -Lname,lat

i.e., if you want 5 extra columns then -L will specify the 5 names and your data columns will have to have those 5 extra columns in that order.

-p

On Apr 13, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Becker, Joseph J. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Basically I love gmt2kml. 
> 
> The output below is probably easier to understand than my question…
> 
> ===
> 
> While
> 
> 	gmt2kml file.gmt -L8:name,3:lat …
> 
> does exactly what I want if there is numeric data in the “gmt” file columns, e.g. lat, lon, time,
> 
> 	if the column has string, e.g. “DRFT04RR”, then the KML is output with NaN
> 
> <Data name = "name">
> 	<value>NaN</value>
> </Data>
> 
> 
> is there a way to get a column with a string into the KML ?
> 
> I have control of the file input to gmt2kml so I can add quotes, backslashes, or whatever to the string
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> JJ
> 
> ================
> 
> $ head -1 test.txt 
> 
> -109.765540    25.569340      -3180      -1967      -1213       9999         54169      89654 “DRFT04RR”
> 
> 
> $ head -1 test.txt | gmt2kml -L8:name
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
> <Document>
> 	<name>GMT Data Document</name>
> 	<Style id="GMT-36236-0">
> 		<IconStyle>
> 			<scale>1</scale>
> 			<color>ff80c0ff</color>
> 			<Icon>
> 				<href>http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/kml/pal4/icon57.png</href>
> 			</Icon>
> 		</IconStyle>
> 		<LineStyle>
> 			<color>ff000000</color>
> 			<width>1</width>
> 		</LineStyle>
> 		<PolyStyle>
> 			<color>bf80c0ff</color>
> 			<fill>1</fill>
> 			<outline>1</outline>
> 		</PolyStyle>
> 		<LabelStyle>
> 			<scale>1</scale>
> 			<color>ffffffff</color>
> 		</LabelStyle>
> 	</Style>
> 	<Folder>
> 		<name>Point Set 0</name>
> 		<Placemark>
> 			<name>Point 0</name>
> 			<ExtendedData>
> 				<Data name = "name">
> 					<value>NaN</value>
> 				</Data>
> 			</ExtendedData>
> 			<styleUrl>#GMT-36236-0</styleUrl>
> 			<Point>
> 					<coordinates>-109.76554,25.56934,0</coordinates>
> 			</Point>
> 		</Placemark>
> 	</Folder>
> </Document>
> </kml>
> sherwood:Desktop jbecker$ 
> 
> 
> 
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