I am trying to import point data (e.g. Sample locations) into Gplates so that I can track their relative positions in time within a palaeographic/palaeotectonic model. There seems to be no obvious way of doing this and yet this seems to me to be an obvious potential function for Gplates to have on order to place a study area into some kind of palaeographic context.
Dear Fairey,
I have found a tutorial for you. The link is below.
www.earthbyte.org/Resources/GPlates.../Importing.../Importing_Rasters_Tutorial.docx
If you found this helpful, Please let me know by recommending the answer.
Kind Regards,
Syed Talha TIrmizi
If you prefer you can try that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGMKmbGTEHQ
The way I do this is as follows but I am sure there are other ways if you don't have excel or ArcGIS. First, I make my point data into a .csv using excel, then I import the .csv into ArcGIS as XY data. You can then export the data from ArcGIS as a shapefile. Then you can bring the shapefile into GPlates and assign the plate IDs using a static plates file.
Convert point to shapefile.
Usually, I have no problem to import .shp file in Gplates.
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