iMapBuilder - Interactive Map Software
Help Topics:
Getting Started
- Installation guide
- Interface Introduction
- Create an interactive map
- Map properties
- Styles and color theme
- Tooltip
Draw on map
- Add marker
- Draw line
- Draw route
- Add label
- Add clickable area
- Insert image or add logo
- Edit multiple objects
Software Features
- Area color and link settings
- Create heat map
- Map with legend
- Category filter for markers
- Highlight and group areas
- Import city to an interactive map
- Pan and zoom function
- Default zoom level and center point
- Batch edit region settings
Publish to the web
Embed map into blog or CMS
Plot latitude and longitude
Example of use
- Create population density heat map
- Clickable image map
- Create a drill down map
- Create World map
- Create U.S. map
License and registration
Import map labels using latitude & longitude data
iMapBuilder supports to insert text labels using latitude and longitude coordinates, which is suitable for pinpointing city locations, displaying branch offices across regions, or showing an absolute location of a particular place. The software allows you to import labels manually on the grid, or import data from an Excel spreadsheet file.
Steps:
- Select File -> New in the toolbar. Click "Latitude/ Longitude Map" 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.
- To add text label, you can click
on the bulk import icon "Bulk Input/ Import Data" and select Label under 'Points and Lines' section. A pop-up window is now displayed.
- Fill in the information of text label using Grid as below:
Importing data from an Excel spreadsheet file
You can import your data from a spreadsheet Unicode text file (.txt) by pressing "import data file" or click "paste from clipboard" button to paste the data from clipboard. You can also click "copy all to clipboard" button to copy the data or export the data to Excel by pressing "export data file" button.
When clicking "import data file", 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 |
| Label Name | A reference name shown in the item list. | Washington DC |
| Latitude | The latitude coordinate
of the label, it should be in decimal degree format. Latitude will range from 90 to -90 where N is positive and S is negative |
38.89 |
| Longitude | The longitude coordinate of
the label, it should be in decimal degree format. Longitude will range from -180 to 180 where W is negative and E is positive |
-77.02 |
| Label Text | The label text shown on the map | Washington DC |
| With Background | 1 to enable background, 0 to disable background | 1 |
| Background Color | Web color value in hexadecimal notation (HEX) | #FF0000 |
| Background Opacity | Opacity ranges from 0 (fully transparent) to 100 (fully opaque) | 100 |
| Label Width | Width of the label in pixels | 30 |
| Position Center | This function will auto
adjust the position of label to centre relative to the coordinate. 1 for position center, 0 for position from top left |
0 |