iMapBuilder supports adding placemarks using Longitude and Latitude coordinates, which is suitable for pinpointing city locations, displaying branch offices across the regions, or showing an absolute location of a particular place. The software allows you to add points manually on the grid, or import data from an Excel spreadsheet file.

Steps:

1. Select File->New in the toolbar. Click button in template wizard, a list of maps would be presented such as World countries, United States (Geo), and United States Mainland (Geo). Click on one of them to open a new project.
   
   

2. To add icon, you can click on the icon and select Placemark under 'Points and Lines' section. A pop up window is now displayed.
   
   
   
   
   
3. You are required to config the default type of mouse over/mouse click event properties, this setting will apply to all the imported points. In section 1, select the tooltips styles, set the color/width. After that, select mouse click event properties and choose the map icons. Fill in the information of placemark using Grid in section 2 as below:
   
   Importing data from an Excel spreadsheet file
   You can import your data from an spreadsheet unicode text file (.txt) by pressing or click button to paste the data from clipboard. You can also click button to copy the data or export the data to Excel by pressing button.
   
   When clicking , a pop up window is displayed for you to load a data file in txt format, select a recent data file or load sample data.
   
   
   
   

   Column	Description	Sample
   Placemark name	The name of the placemark, a reference name shown in the item list of points and lines editing interface	Washington DC
   Latitude	The latitude coordinate of the placemark, it should be in decimal degree format. If you have Latitude in degree/minute/second format, you are required to convert into this format first. Latitude will range from 90 to -90 where N is positive and S is negative	38.89
   Longitude	The longitude coordinate of the placemark, it should be in decimal degree format. If you have Longitude in degree/minute/second format, you are required to convert into this format first. Longitude will range from -180 to 180 where W is negative and E is positive	-77.02
   Icon	Icon of placemark, click [Get Icon Path] in section 2 to retrieve the icon path, then paste the path in this field. Or click [Apply to all] to also fill in the icon size and angle. If you need to add your own icon, please add this to the icon library before use.	icons/standard/dot_red.swf
   Icon Size	Icon size in percentage, you can also click [Apply to all] in section 2 to fill in the icon and angle. Icon size ranges from 1 to 300 and it should be an integer value.	100
   Icon Angle	The angle of rotation of the placemark icon, you can also click [Apply to all] in section 2 to fill in the icon and size. Icon angle ranges from -180 to 180 and it should be an integer value.	30
   Placemark label	The label beside the placemark, leave it blank if not necessary.	Washington DC
   MO-Tooltip Description	The description text for the mouse over tooltip, leave it blank if infobox type is selected.	The branch office is located here.
   MO-InfoBox Description	The description text for the mouse over infobox, leave it blank if tooltip type is selected.	Contact person: John Smith
   MO-InfoBox Image	The image path for the mouseover infobox. Only local path is supported, leave it blank if not necessary.	C:\Documents and Settings\image.gif
   MO-InfoBox Anchor	The anchor position of the mouse over infobox, Value [1-9] where 1 for Top Left and 9 for Bottom Right	1
   MC-Url	The URL Address when mouse click the placemark, leave it blank if InfoBox type is selected	http://www.imapbuilder.com
   MC-Url Target	The target for the URL Address, For example, "_blank" for new window, "_self" for same window Leave it blank if InfoBox type is selected	_blank
   MC-InfoBox Description	The description text for the mouse click infobox, leave it blank if URL type is selected	The branch office is located here.
   MC-InfoBox Image	The image path for the mouse click infobox. Only local path is supported, leave it blank if URL type is selected	http://www.imapbuilder.com
   MC-InfoBox Anchor	The anchor position of the mouse click infobox, Value [1-9] where 1 for Top Left and 9 for Bottom Right	9

   
    
   

   Convert lat/long coordinate to x/y coordinate

   In case you may need to connect your database and generate the XML on the fly, you may need to convert the lat/long coordinate to the x/y coordinate, because our XML will only support x/y coordinate.
   You may use the following formulas:

   For WorldCountries Map:

   X = (((180+Long)*800)/360);
   Y = (((90-Lat)*400.25)/180) - 14.25;

    

   For United States Mainland (GEO) Map:

   X = (((Long-(-124.73174))/(-66.94-(-124.73174))*800));
   Y = (((Lat-49.384358)/24.544701-49.384358)344));

    

   For United States (GEO) Map:

   if Long - (-187.538333) < 0 then
   {
   Long = Long + 360
   }
   else if Long - (-187.538333) > 360 then
   {
   Long = Long - 360;
   };
   X = (((Long-(-187.538333))/(-65.22111-(-187.538333))*800));

   Y = (((Lat-71.352560644)/(17.884813-71.352560644)*350));