New Post: How to zoom to a specific location?

**jany_ wrote:**

You can find ZoomToCoordinatesDialog inside DotSpatial.Controls and Map1 would be the DotSpatial.Controls.IMap you're using in your program.

Thank you for your reply. I want to clarify something. In this snippet:

using (CoordinateDialog = new ZoomToCoordinatesDialog(Map1)) 

CoordinateDialog is DotSpatial.Plugins.ShapeEditor.CoordinateDialog?
The "Map1" in my program is DotSpatial.Controls.Map. I assigned it to another DotSpatial.Controls.IMap
However, my code won't compile as CoordinateDialog is a type.

I instead modified the code as follows:

            using (var a  = new ZoomToCoordinatesDialog(Map1)) 
            {
                a.ShowDialog();
            }

and the dialog is shown as intended. Though I'm not sure if this is the correct way of doing it.

My next clarification is: does the textbox in the dialog accept decimal degree values? I entered the values for longitude(121.040808282859) and latitude (14.5285245261747) in this dialog and decimal degrees in the following URL: http://www.gps-coordinates.net/

But I got different locations. The one I entered in the URL landed on the intended landmass, while the dialog landed me way-off into the sea.