and your other post: http://blog.sofasurfer.ch/2011/03/04/php-simple-comments-readwrite-json-data-to-text-file/

looks like it could use that date to include in the text file it creates.

If you want to add custom markers i would use twitter. There you can add your current location, images and a description of what’s happening (or any other mobile app which allows you to post you current location).

To then generate the map you combine the two data files:

1. instamapper data for the route
2. twitter api data for custom marker

Great idea, would be interesting to build an example on how to combine instamapper and twitter into one custom map.

Hope you got my point and will look into it once i have a bit more time.

I use a mobile app called Instamapper http://instamapper.com that can run on any mobile device and upload gps data to their server at specified intervals. In my case I am doing this for long bike rides but it would be good for any type of travel where there was wireless data service available. I had aleady been generating google maps of my routes using service from http://GPSVisualizer.com and generating tracks and or markers from the automatically uploaded tracking information from the data feed from instamapper. An example of this can be viewed at http://theregoesbrian.com . What I would like to add to this is the ability to create additional markers on the map that I create from the browser of my phone while moving along my trip bu having a php form that would have text fields that I could enter a label and comment for a marker and then when the script wrote the data to the text file it would also add data from the instamapper feed such as longitude and latitude to finish off the row of data to create the markers from since that location data would be accurate at the most recent time of sync with the server. So essentially doing what you have done only adding this other source of data. Once this is setup one of the form fields can be an image link that I can create from a photo uploaded from my phone to my dropbox account since it’s easy to do it that way. Example map is using a google docs spreadsheet as the data source for the markers since I could do that manually to create the example.

just give me a moment..

I want to add something similar to my site. Can I add this into a page or something?