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Crafting beautiful maps with PyGMT at EGU22

EGU22 SC5.2: Crafting beautiful maps with PyGMT

Material for the PyGMT short course at EGU General Assembly 2022!

Recording:

A recording of the full short course is available on YouTube:

Conveners:

• Wei Ji Leong
• Leonardo Uieda
• Max Jones
• Andre Belem

When:

• Tuesday 24 May 2022, 13:10-14:40 (UTC) / 15:10-16:40 (CEST)
• Event Time Zone Converter

Where: Online/Virtual

Website: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/43186

Schedule

Time (UTC)	Event
13:10-13:17	Introduction
13:17-13.39	Anatomy of a PyGMT figure
13:39-13.55	Integration with the scientific Python ecosystem
13:55-14.15	Making some Mars maps with pygmt
14:15-14.40	LiDAR Point clouds to 3D surfaces

Getting started

Quickstart

Launch on regular Binder. Try this first!

Launch on Pangeo Binder. Hosted on AWS US West2 region. Requires GitHub account, but is more powerful (more CPU/RAM).

Code of Conduct

All involved individuals must follow the EGU General Assembly rules of conduct and PyGMT Code of Conduct. Act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community. Any questions/concerns can be raised in private via email to the EGU programme committee and/or any of the short course conveners.

License

This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

egu22pygmt's Issues

Countries not showing up in world map example

User reported at https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/not-able-to-draw-closed-polygons-using-pygmt/3663 that the geopandas.GeoDataFrame plot example in https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/egu22pygmt/ecosystem.html isn't working.

fig.plot(data=world, pen="1p,black", close=True, color="+z", cmap=True, aspatial="Z=pop_est")

produces this error

plot [ERROR]: OGR parsing incomplete (is file missing OGR statements?) - abort

and a blank map

The change happened after #23 on Nov 2022 (see diff on gh-pages branch at 6b59921), and my guess is that this is related to the naturalearth_lowres update in geopandas/geopandas#2418 in Jun 2022 which updated the GeoDataFrame to have a mix of Polygon/MultiPolygon types, which isn't supported yet in PyGMT/GMT (see GenericMappingTools/pygmt#2405).

TODO: Update the notebook with some workaround so that the map is showing in the JupyterBook. E.g. following https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/not-able-to-draw-closed-polygons-using-pygmt/3663/3, or some other non-explode way.

Upload short course video(s) to Youtube channel

Thread to coordinate upload of tutorial videos to https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGenericMappingTools, continuing from #1 (comment).

For convenience, here's a link to all the videos:

• Introduction #10 (comment)
• Anatomy of a PyGMT figure #7 (comment)
• Integration with the scientific Python ecosystem #8 (comment)
• Making some Mars maps with pygmt #1 (comment)
• LiDAR point cloud to 3D surfaces #5 (comment)

@meghanrjones, let me know if you're ok to handle this? Or I can upload them (since I already have them all on my computer) if you give me permission to the Youtube channel.

In terms of licensing, looking at https://egu22.eu/guidelines/short-course_guidelines.html and https://egu22.eu/abstracts_and_programme/licence_and_copyright.html, it seems that everything will just be CC-BY-4.0 licensed which allows "Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format" as long as we give proper attribution.

Content for EGU22 PyGMT short course

Continuing on from GenericMappingTools/website#131 (comment), we're going to have a 10 min intro + 4x20min sessions (total 90 min) for the PyGMT short course on 24 May 2022. This issue is for discussing what sort of material we'd like to teach, and sort out who is doing what (i.e. logistics).

👉 Draft outline: https://hackmd.io/@pygmt/egu22pygmt_outline

Important dates:

• 31 Mar 2022 - Early bird registration deadline
• 14 Apr 2022 - On-site attendance registration deadline
• 18 May 2022 - Short course pre-recording upload deadline
• 24 May 2022 - PyGMT short course

Note that the short course content can be pre-recorded ahead of time. I'm suggesting that we set an individual deadline on Friday 6 May 2022 Tuesday 10 May 2022 to have the presentation material (in mp4 format) ready for upload (though let me know if this doesn't work). This should give us time to review each other's work, make corrections, and merge the presentation together into the final 1.5 hour presentation (max 2-3GB) by the hard deadline on Wednesday 18 May 2022. Note that the EGU upload 'portal' is open from 9–18 May 2022 according to https://egu22.eu/guidelines/short-course_guidelines.html.

Also, @meghanrjones suggested at GenericMappingTools/website#131 (comment) that we can have a think about having some sort of interactive component (e.g. gather.town with the participants).

@leouieda, @meghanrjones, @andrebelem. I've set up a poll at https://www.when2meet.com/?15145108-mijPx so that we can have a 1 hour Zoom meeting to discuss this in more detail. (Edit: cancelling the meeting since hard to get everyone together, see #1 (comment)) But feel free to jot down any ideas you have below!

Pop-up EGU22 networking event 25 May 2022 at 17:00UTC/19:00CEST

Both @meghanrjones and @andrebelem suggested at GenericMappingTools/website#131 (comment) and #1 (comment) that we have some sort of virtual networking event for the EGU22 conference for PyGMT.

Officially, we probably should use https://webforms.copernicus.org/EGU22/pop-up-networking to organize this, but we can use just about any platform. So, do we want this to be on:

• Zoom
• Gather.town
• Discord
• Google Meet

For the date, let's vote using https://www.when2meet.com/?15752037-Itjqh. Yes I realize this is a bit last minute 😅

Issue on page /first-figure.html

hello,
im trying to open this in binder but it is showing the following error

what should i do? i am completely new to this platform both gmt and binder.

thank you in advance
aswini