This is the answer to the Mount Diablo Map and Code in eleven simple steps. The entire answer was supplied by the Little List letter (7.26.1970).
#1. The Button letter states "The Map coupled with this code will tell you where the bomb is set". This tells you one simple thing, that neither the map nor the code will give you the answer. You need the two elements of map and code to identify where the bomb is set.
#2. The following Little List letter states "P.S. The Mt. Diablo code concerns Radians + # inches along the radians". Therefore, the code must contain (or concern) radians and inches, to be coupled with the magnetic north of the map (because the Zodiac Killer wrote "0 is to be set to Mag. N.", which was 17 degrees in 1970, Together they will identify "where the bomb is set". The Map (set to 17 degrees) coupled with the "radians and inches" to be found in the code, will tell you where the bomb is set. #3. There are two crosshairs on the Little List letter. One has "P.S. The Mt. Diablo code concerns Radians + # inches along the radians" written over it, while the second has a bold, black circle around the circumference with SFPD=0 next to it. One gives the radian value, while the other gives the inches value. It really isn't that difficult to work out which contains each. #4. The crosshairs with a hashtag before inches is telling you to insert a number here. The hashtag symbol represents a number sign. Look on Wikipedia and it explains it perfectly. There is an arrow beneath the hashtag beckoning you to insert a number value before inches. 
#5. The other crosshairs have a bold, black circle around the circumference with SFPD=0 next to it. If you place this over a compass rose, the center of the circle falls close to 246 degrees, which happens to be 4 radians and magnetic north (the Zodiac Killer's crude design was off by about 3 degrees). Remember, Zodiac stated on the Mt. Diablo map "is to be set to Mag. N." Magnetic north was 17 degrees in 1970. A radian is 57.3 degrees. So, 57.3 X 4 + 17 = 229.2 + 17 = 246.2 degrees. This was the angle a line was to be drawn extending from Mount Diablo. Now we have to find the distance in inches.
#6. Next to the bold, black circle was SFPD (San Francisco Police Department), so it's pretty obvious the target was a police station in San Francisco. Virtually every other threat Zodiac made was directed toward San Francisco and this wasn't going to be any different. So let us now find the inches value.
#7. There is only one answer. If you travel 4 or 6 inches along a line subtended at 246 degrees from Mount Diablo (4 radians and Magnetic North), the location lands in the sea. Only 5 inches falls over the land mass of San Francisco. The same applies to the radian value. 3 radians and magnetic north, or 5 radians and magnetic north, doesn't land over San Francisco. #8. Therefore, only one answer exists: 4 radians and magnetic north and 5 inches. The map coupled with the code will tell you where the bomb is set. So, magnetic north of 17 degrees, coupled with 4 radians, and 5 inches along that angular line, is where the bomb is set (or claimed it was going to be set). #9. The Zodiac likely used rudimentary measurement tools in 1970, however, to an overall accuracy of over 98%, 4 radians and magnetic north, coupled with 5 inches, lands over Ingleside Police Station. This police station was 4.08 radians and magnetic north from Mount Diablo. Ingleside Police Station was also 4.84 inches from Mount Diablo (using the map scale of 6.4 miles to the inch). This is the only police station anywhere close to these measurements and satisfies the SFPD=0 attribution. But can we be sure it's correct? 
#10. The Zodiac Killer drew a diagram on the April 20th 1970 letter. It had a school bus traveling from north to south (with the sun rising in the east), with a steep embankment to the right, If you travel to the closest portion of road traveling north to south from Ingleside Police Station, you arrive at the Southern Freeway. This is a bus route for Thomas More Catholic School traveling north to south (with the sun to the east in the morning), with a steep embankment to the right. It is only 274 feet from Ingleside Police Station.
The Zodiac Killer by choosing this location, would have been able to blow up a school bus right next to a police station, thereby creating carnage under the noses of the police he so utterly taunted and reviled. 
#11. The code solution identified was "estimate: four radians and five inches". The 32 character code wasn't the complete solution, because the Zodiac Killer explicitly stated "the map coupled with the code will tell you where the bomb is set", which included magnetic north of 17 degrees in 1970. The code contained "four radians and five inches", to be coupled with the map which incorporated the magnetic north, giving us a total of 246.2 degrees. See The Blast Estimate of Zodiac and The Blast Estimate of Zodiac (Part Two) and The Blast Estimate of Zodiac (Part Three).
Footnote: Ordinarily radians would be measured counter-clockwise, but the Zodiac Killer gave us crosshairs superimposed over Mount Diablo with an arrow pointer set in the north facing position, "to be set to Mag. N". He allocated it a zero position, with a 3, 6 and 9 in the form of a clock face around its circumference. This was to instruct us to travel clockwise around the circumference of the crosshairs in this instance. Which is why it was no fluke that the bold, black circle fell exactly at 4 radians and Magnetic North.
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The Button letter stated "I have become very upset with the people of San Fran Bay Area. They have not complied with my wishes for them to wear some nice Zodiac buttons. I promised to punish them by anilating a full School Buss. But now school is out for the summer, so I punished them in another way. I shot a man sitting in a parked car with a .38. The Map coupled with this code will tell you where the bomb is set. You have untill next Fall to dig it up".
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