Also just for clarification I have a shapefile that has its own (or default?) WorldRect (which I assume is some sort of positioning mechanism) and I am "synch-ing" the symbol layer with the shapefile layer? Sorry if there is already an explination of this, you can just refer me to it. But I found the documentation a little ambiguous but this is what it seems like it is.

EDIT: also just for more clarification I am using the USA shapefile that I found in the demo source files. I tried your suggestions to add points but I still can't seem them. Should I use different coordinates or should those coordinates that you gave me work?

EDIT2: I realized that there is a problem with the way that I am doing symbols somehow. Following the documentation on how to add symbols to maps I figured out some things. I have the code

<igMaps:XamMap x:Name="myMap">
            <igMaps:XamMap.Layers>
               
                <igMaps:MapLayer x:Name="mapLayer" IsClickable="False">
                    <igMaps:MapLayer.Reader>
                        <igMaps:ShapeFileReader Uri="/../ClientBin/Shapefiles/world">
                        </igMaps:ShapeFileReader>
                    </igMaps:MapLayer.Reader>
                </igMaps:MapLayer>
               
                <igMaps:MapLayer x:Name="symbolLayer" IsClickable="False" Imported="symbolLayer_Imported">
                    <igMaps:MapLayer.ValueTemplate>
                        <DataTemplate>
                            <Image Source="Resources/marker.png" Height="50" Width="50" />
                        </DataTemplate>
                    </igMaps:MapLayer.ValueTemplate>
                </igMaps:MapLayer>
               
            </igMaps:XamMap.Layers>
        </igMaps:XamMap>

The problem has to do with when I try and make the symbolsLayer its own layer. If I embed the ValueTemplate in the mapLayer layer then then they show up fine, but trying to interact with a different layer the symbols don't show up. Does this have something to do with overlapping?

        private void symbolLayer_Imported(object sender, MapLayerImportEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Action == MapLayerImportAction.End)
            {

                MapLayer layer = myMap.Layers["symbolLayer"];
                layer.WorldRect = myMap.Layers[0].WorldRect;

                MapElementCollection ele = new MapElementCollection();

                double latitude = 0;
                double longitude = 0;

                Point origin = myMap.MapProjection.ProjectToMap(new Point(longitude, latitude));
                SymbolElement element = new SymbolElement() { SymbolOrigin = origin, Caption = "Marker" };

                ele.Add(element);

                layer.Elements = ele;
            }
        }

I just made this simple like the documentation, but as I said before when I do it on the mapLayer it works fine (although it adds the symbol to all the countries, which I assume has to do with the shapefile) but when I make a separate symbols layer it doesn't work

Ah thank you very much. Sorry about my code this is the first time I've posted on this forum :)