Originally the plate-model-manager was designed for GPlately. Later, it was found also useful in other scenarios and contexts. The plate-model-manager downloads and manages the plate reconstruction model files. It is a dataset manager for plate tectonic reconstruction models, similar to NPM or Conda for software packages.
Have you ever wondered where to get the plate tectonic reconstruction models for your research? Are you tired of downloading files from Internet manually and specify file paths when calling PyGPlates functions? If the answer is yes, you probably want to check out this plate-model-manager Python module.
pip install plate-model-manager
or
conda install conda-forge::plate-model-manager
For more information regarding installation, visit this page
Visit this page to see how to use the plate-model-manager package in assorted scenarios.
Visit this page to see how to use the plate-model-manager command lines.
Here are some software applications that make use of the plate-model-manager module:
The plate-model-manager can also be used with the GPlates desktop application. To do so, use the plate-model-manager command-line tool to download the plate model files, then open them in GPlates. This provides a convenient alternative to manually downloading files from the internet.
- aiohttp
- requests
- nest_asyncio
For Jupyter Notebook, Web Server or GUI application users, you need the following two lines to workaround the event loop RuntimeError. If you do not add these two lines, the PlateModelManager still works. But you will see a warning message. You can ignore the warning message safely. If the warning message bothers you, add the two lines before calling PlateModelManager.
https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/nest-asyncio/
import nest_asyncio
nest_asyncio.apply()