How To Mark A Point At A Lat/Lon Coordinate

When you are connected to a GPS/GNSS device you can use this procedure to automatically mark points on the map with no need to deal with latitude/longitude coordinates. However, there could be times where you have a set of coordinates written down and you want to mark a point on the map at that location. Here is how to do that.

How to Plot a single point

1. First click the Find Address button and enter your latitude and longitude coordinates to pinpoint that location on the map.  See the Find Address article for instructions on how to enter these coordinates.
2. Next click the Draw button and choose the layer you want to draw on.
3. Click the blue Point button.
4. Hover your mouse over the point that was located in step 1 until you see a small box appear and then click the mouse button to mark the point
5. Fill in the information about this point and finish by clicking the "Add" button.

How to Plot multiple points

1. Create a spreadsheet document (such as in Microsoft Excel) to type a list of your points
2. Enter each point on its own row with the first row reserved for column names
3. Create a column called "Latitude" and a column called "Longitude" to record your coordinates for each row.  Your coordinates must be entered in decimal degrees format (not degrees-minutes-seconds).  For North America, the latitude is the positive value and the longitude is the negative value.
4. Create additional columns as needed to record other information about each point such as name, size, date, etc.
5. Save the spreadsheet as a CSV file (<-- Important Step)
6. Use the Import CSV tool in Diamond Maps to plot all of these points on your map