iMapBuilder supports adding labels 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 labels 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 text label, you can click on the label icon and select Label under 'Points and Lines' section. A pop up window is now displayed.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Fill in the information of text label using Grid 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
   Label Name	The name of the label, a reference name shown in the item list of points and lines editing interface	Washington DC
   Latitude	The latitude coordinate of the label, 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 label, 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
   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	The degree to which a background is opaque. 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