Plot locations on map using latitude and longitude

iMapBuilder supports to add marker using latitude and longitude 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 pins through the data grid, or import from an Excel spreadsheet file.

1. Select File > New in the toolbar. Click latitude and longitude map in start wizard, a list of maps would be displayed such as World countries and United States (Geo).
2. To add icon, you can click on the bulk input/ import data button and select markers under points and lines section.
   
   
   
   
   
3. You are required to assign the default type of mouseover/ 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 marker using Grid in section 2 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.
   
   Click import data file, load a data file in TXT format, select a recent datafile or load a sample data.
   
   
   
   

   Column	Description	Sample
   Marker name	A reference name shown in the item list.	Washington DC
   Latitude	The latitude coordinate of the label in decimal degree format, range from 90 to -90 where N is positive and S is negative.	38.89
   Longitude	The longitude coordinate of the label in decimal degree format, range from -180 to 180 where W is negative and E is positive.	-77.02
   Icon	Marker icon, click get icon path in section 2 to retrieve the icon path, then paste into this field. Or click apply to all to fill in the icon size and angle.	icons/standard/dot_red.swf
   Icon Size	Icon size in percentage, ranges from integer 1 to 300.	100
   Icon Angle	The angle of rotation of the marker icon, ranges from integer -180 to 180.	30
   Marker label	The text label besides the marker.	Washington DC
   MO - Tooltip Description	The description text for mouseover tooltip.	The branch office is located here.
   MO - InfoBox Description	The description text for the mouseover infobox.	Contact person: John Smith
   MO - InfoBox Image	The image path for the mouseover infobox. Only local path is supported.	C:\Documents and Settings\image.gif
   MO - InfoBox Anchor	The anchor position of the mouseover infobox	1
   MC - Url	The URL address to open when clicking the marker.	http://www.example.com
   MC - Url Target	The target to open the URL Address, for example, _blank for new window, _self for same window.	_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.
   MC - InfoBox Anchor	The anchor position of the mouse click infobox	9

   
   

   Convert latitude and longitude coordinates to x/ y coordinates

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

   For World Countries 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));