Reconstruct Coastlines

Reconstruct Coastlines

Description:

HTTP GET request to retrieve reconstructed coastline polygons

Endpoint:

https://gws.gplates.org/reconstruct/coastlines/

Parameters:

• time : geologic time(Ma) [required]

• model : the reconstruction model name (if not specified, will use the default model)

• fmt : if set this parameter to "png", this function will return a png image

• anchor_plate_id : integer value for reconstruction anchor plate id [default=0]

• facecolor : such as "black", "blue", etc

• edgecolor : such as "black", "blue", etc

• alpha : such as 1, 0.5, etc

• extent : such as extent=-180,180,-90,90

• central_meridian : central meridian -- useful when wrap to dateline and plot png map

• wrap : flag to indicate if wrap the coastlines along dateline, true or false

Return:

GeoJSON/PNG data containing reconstructed coastline features

Examples:

👉 E1: Reconstruct the coastlines back to 140Ma using ZAHIROVIC2022 model.

Click this link to try this example in a web browser.

Alternatively, use curl command.

curl "https://gws.gplates.org/reconstruct/coastlines/?&time=140&model=ZAHIROVIC2022"

👉 E2: Return a PNG map for the whole world

Click this link to try this example in a web browser.

Alternatively, use curl command.

curl --output coastlines.png "https://gws.gplates.org/reconstruct/coastlines/?&time=140&model=ZAHIROVIC2022&fmt=png&facecolor=lime&edgecolor=black&alpha=0.5"

👉 E3: Return a PNG map within an extent

Click this link to try this example in a web browser.

Alternatively, use curl command.

curl --output coastlines.png "https://gws.gplates.org/reconstruct/coastlines/?&time=140&model=ZAHIROVIC2022&fmt=png&facecolor=lime&edgecolor=black&alpha=0.5&extent=-50,50,-50,50"