This is a copy of a feature request from the old website (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/issues/914). I'm particularly interested in 2.
Some suggestions for an even better grdcontour:
- Add an option for plotting only open or closed contours (sometimes, you want to focus only on the closed contours or only on the open contours)
- (Related to the existing ability of dumping contours based on whether they are closed or open, -D%c) Add an option to distinguish between closed contours based on whether they are closed in a downward or upward direction (not talking about an algorithm for finding locate valleys and hilltops) - e.g. dump closed contours as data line segments into two separate files; for example C_upwards.gmt and C_downwards.gmt. GMT is obviously capable of this - ref. the -T option in grdcontour.