Map pins & more

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Pins basics

Add pins to the map

Move map pins

Delete map pins

Change map pin colors

Pins basics

The ideal CIMS Gold cemetery: Orderly pins representing cemetery spaces. Our default colors are green for available, light blue for sold and a darker blue for sold spaces with one or more burials present.

Only CIMS Gold has a dedicated tab in the right-hand panel for its map. Pins on the map represent individual spaces; one pin represents one space.

Map pins are NOT intended to represent burials. The correct way to handle a space with multiple burials in CIMS Gold is to create 1 space in your database, place 1 pin representing the space, and add multiple burials in the Burial tab of the right-hand panel. Read about adding burials here.

Add pins to the map

Initially, your map in CIMS Gold will have no pins, you need to add them. The easiest way to do this to add all pins for a lot at once.

Method 1: Add pins by lot

1. Add pins to map
   1. In the right-hand panel, click the Map tab. Move the map to the area where you want the lot's pins to be placed.
   2. In the left-hand panel, open the List tab. Open your sections and blocks until you find the lot whose pins you want to add to the map.
   3. Hover over the name of the lot with your mouse. You will see a green location icon appear just to the right of the lot's name. Click it.
   4. In the right-hand panel, you will see the map now has blue bars above and below that read "Map mode: Move pins". This indicates the map is ready for you to move its pins.
2. Move pins to their places
   1. In the center of the map, circles have appeared with dotted outlines. These are your pins. The number of pins that appear correspond to the number of spaces in this lot that have not been added to the map yet. Each pin will have its space name in its center.
   2. Click and drag on the pins to move them to their correct locations. The pins will initially be bunched up together, you will probably need to separate them out to read the numbers in the center first, then place them in their final positions.
   3. When finished, click the green "Finish moving pins" button.
   4. The pins are now locked in place. In the List tab of the left-hand panel, you can now see a faint location icon next to the space names, indicating these spaces have a pin on the map.
3. Optional:
   1. You may want to use a grid while placing pins so that they are more regular. Click the navy "Show grid" button, then manipulate the height, width and angle inputs to change the grid to suit your cemetery. Click "Hide grid" to hide the grid.
   2. You can directly input a pin's latitude and longitude if you have it for exact placement.

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  Let's add a lot's pins to our map! Click on the "Map" tab and move it to the area you want to add the pins to go. Find the lot in the left-hand panel's List tab. Hover over the lot name and click the green location icon.

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  This lot has 6 spaces that haven't had their pins added to the map yet; 6 pins appear on my map, ready to be moved to their final positions. The dotted outlines indicate they have not been saved to the database yet.

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  Start moving the pins by clicking and dragging them. Separate them out so you can read their labels.

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  Optionally, you can input exact latitude and longitude or use a grid to help you place pins.

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  When satisfied, click "Finish moving pins".

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  That's it! Our pins have been saved to the database. Note that in the List tab, there is a faint location icon next to space names indicating they have pins on the map.

Method 2: Add a single pin

Method 2 is much like method 1, but of course, we're only adding a pin for a single lot.

1. Navigate to the space in CIMS
   1. Using the List tab, open sections, blocks and lots until you find the space whose pin you want to add on the map. Click it so its information loads in the right-hand panel.
   2. Click the map tab and move the map to the area where you want the pin to be placed.
   3. Click the green pin icon located to the left of the map, above the "Move pins" button.
2. Move pin to its place
   1. In the center of the map, a circle has appeared with a dotted outline. This is your pin. The name in its center should correspond to the name of the space you clicked on in step 1 (above).
   2. Click and drag on the pin to move it to its correct location.
   3. When finished, click the green "Finish moving pins" button.
   4. The pin is now locked in place. In the List tab of the left-hand panel, you can now see a faint location icon next to the space's name, indicating this space has a pin on the map.

1. Add pins to map
   1. In the right-hand panel, click the Map tab. Move the map to the area where you want the lot's pins to be placed.
   2. In the left-hand panel, open the List tab. Open your sections and blocks until you find the lot whose pins you want to add to the map.
   3. Hover over the name of the lot with your mouse. You will see a green location icon appear just to the right of the lot's name. Click it.
   4. In the right-hand panel, you will see the map now has blue bars above and below that read "Map mode: Move pins". This indicates the map is ready for you to move its pins.
2. Move pins to their places
   1. In the center of the map, circles have appeared with dotted outlines. These are your pins. The number of pins that appear correspond to the number of spaces in this lot that have not been added to the map yet. Each pin will have its space name in its center.
   2. Click and drag on the pins to move them to their correct locations. The pins will initially be bunched up together, you will probably need to separate them out to read the numbers in the center first, then place them in their final positions.
   3. When finished, click the green "Finish moving pins".
   4. The pins are now locked in place. In the List tab of the left-hand panel, you can now see a faint location icon next to the space's name, indicating this space has a pin on the map.
3. Optional:
   1. You may want to use a grid while placing pins so that they are more regular. Click the navy "Show grid" button, then manipulate the height, width and angle inputs to change the grid to suit your cemetery. Click "Hide grid" to hide the grid.
   2. You can directly input a pin's latitude and longitude if you have it for exact placement.

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  Start by opening the space whose pin you want to add to the map in the right-hand panel. The easiest way to do this is by clicking on it from the List tab.

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  Click the Map tab and move the map to the area where you want to add the pin. Click the green location icon (outlined in red above).

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  The pin appears on the map; it has a dotted outline to indicate it hasn't been saved to the database yet.

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  Click and drag the pin to move it. When satisfied, click the green "Finish moving pins" button.

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  That's it! The pin is saved in the database. You can see a faint location icon next to the space's name, indicating it has a pin on the map.

Change map pin colors

We have a section elsewhere in the wiki dedicated to changing map colors for CIMS Gold. Find it on the spaces list page.