Add Place

To add a Place, your IMSMANG user account must belong to a User Role that has permission Places with Read and Write level. Contact your IMSMANG Administrator if you have questions on permissions.

To add a place to IMSMA:

1. From the Data Entry menu, select Places.

The Place List window displays.

2. Click the button.

The Place Editor window displays.

Place Editor Window

3. Enter a unique identifier for the place in the Place ID field.
4. Enter the name of the place in the Place Name field.
5. Select the Type from the drop-down list. Note that a type value must be selected.

Place Type is mandatory

Ammunition storage and Armoury have been added to Place Type

6. Enter a description of the place in the Description field.
7. If there are any fields in the Custom Defined Fields section, enter data in those fields.
8. Enter the place address in the Address field.
9. To select a country structure area, click the button to select the country structure area. The Country Structure Selection window displays.
10. From the Country Structure Selection window:
1. Select the country structure. Click the icons to expand the country structure tree.
2. Click the OK button.

The Country Structure Selection window closes.

11. Select the coordinate reference system that you would like to use from the Coordinate System list.
12. Select the coordinate format from the Coordinate Format list.
13. There are several options for entering geospatial data. These options and the page on which you can find additional information are listed in the table below.

Entering Geospatial Data for a Place
If you want to…	Refer to…
Manually add geospatial points and polygon/polyline points	Manual Geospatial Data Entry.
Draw on the map to specify point, polygon, and polyline coordinates	Draw on the Map to Specify Geographic Coordinates.
Import geospatial data from excel	Import Geospatial Data from Excel.
Import geospatial data from shapefile	Import Geospatial Data from Shapefile.

You can preview the points that you have entered on a map by clicking the button.

14. Do one of the following:
• To add the new place, click the Save button.
• If you do not want to save the new place, click the Cancel button.