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What Was New in GEOPoint Version 3.03

GEOPoint Program

Release Date: July 2011.

The following main features were added or changed in version 3.03:

Upgraded to the latest World Magnetic Model (WMM2010) for calculation of magnetic azimuth (compass direction).
New check box on the Map window to allow users to enable or disable display of a lat,long grid on the map.
New Tool to allow the user to select a location from a built-in list of world major cities.

Added extra map movement buttons on Map Window when zoomed.
New item in Tool menu, allows user to select a location from a user supplied site list file.
New tab in GEOArc View Options to allow the user to change fonts on the plot.
New Track menu on the GEOArc allows users to load satellite orbit data from a file in two-line elements format, or 11 parameter ephemeris format, and plot the orbit on the GEOArc.
After completing GEOArc batch plots, the program now announces completion and reports the number of images saved.
After completing a TLE File Sort, the program now announces completion and reports the number of TLE records in the file.
GEOArc batch plots will now use the ITUR Topo model to estimate altitudes at the batch sites, instead of setting all to sea level.
When running a batch report, the program will now ask the user whether or not to include sites in the report where the satellite would be below the horizon.

Minor changes and improvements to the layout of all HTML reports.
Now also able to use the same MapList format text files used by GreatCirc and World1 as batch input files, ignoring any comment lines or formatting command lines.
After completing GEOArc batch plots, the GEOArc title now properly returns to previous title, instead of keeping the title from the last batch plot.
Fix in Batch GEOArc processing to deal with the special case if the batch input file has coordinates without names, each site will be named as "Location #xx".
Pressing enter key on G/T Estimator, Path Loss Estimator or Stability Estimator tool windows now causes a re-calculation instead of closing the window.
Fix bug in elevation calculation if site is below sea level (negative altitude).
Fixed some minor memory leak issues.

To find out what was new in previous version 3.02, click here.