GPlates 1.5 released

What's new in version 1.5:-

• Projects:
  • Save and restore your sessions with project files.
• New kinematics tool:
  • Displays table of latitude, longitude, velocity, and velocity-related quantities for a given lat-lon point, plate ID, and range of times.
  • Displays graph of above quantities against time.
  • Exports table to text file.
  • Kinematic tool settings dialog to change details of the velocity calcliations.
  • Kinematic tool settings are saved in user preferences.
  • Auto-fills point data from focussed feature.
  • Auto-fills time ranges from animation settings.
• Import and export GeoJSON format feature collections.

...and other changes listed in the CHANGELOG file in the GPlates source-code releases.

GPlates 1.5 compiles and runs on Windows 7/8/8.1, Linux and MacOS X. Download GPlates 1.5 from the Download page.

GPlates-compatible data have been made available. For more information, see the Download page.