Quickly place a marker at a geographical location

[g-guitton]

Feature description: it would be interesting to have a way to place a marker according to user input longitude / latitude. Currently, when using the user shape "Point", it is not possible to modify directly longitude / latitude fields, the only way is to move the point until it reaches the appropriate location.
Context: when analyzing case studies of SWIM wave spectra, it is sometimes interesting to go into OVL in order to have the geophysical context (SWIM nadir, model wave, model wind, surface currents, islands ...). In that case, it would be user friendly to quickly place a marker given SWIM spectra longitude and latitude.

[aamarazafar99-netizen]

+1, this would be a big usability improvement. Manually dragging a point to match exact SWIM spectra coordinates is tedious and imprecise, especially when you're cross-checking several nadir points in the same session.

A couple of implementation ideas that might help scope this:

• A simple text input pair (lat / lon) in the Point properties panel that snaps the marker on Enter, in addition to the existing drag behavior
• Support for pasting a "lat, lon" string directly, so people can copy straight from the SWIM spectra metadata without reformatting
• Optionally, a small tolerance/snap-to-grid setting for cases where the exact decimal precision isn't critical

Even just the manual lat/lon entry field alone would save a lot of back-and-forth when building out the geophysical context for a case study.