Creation of topographic maps

Abstract

The goal of this project was to create a topographic map of Germany without requiring any knowledge of a GIS program from the user. The resulting workflow autonomously generates a map of a colored digital terrain model with the main rivers, political boundaries, some cities, mountains and a legend key under the map. For the individual steps it mainly uses the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT). GMT is a collection of command line programs, which are run on an external server, so they don’t have to be installed at the user’s computer. Creating a map of other areas only requires minor changes of the workflow configuration.