sorry about the delayed response.

i think it all depends on what you’re looking to do. is this just a temporary thing where you’d let a user add places to a map for just them to view during that viewing, or are you looking for them to be able to add for the whole site?

if it’s just during that particular session, you could run it all through jquery - take an address and run it through a long/lat parser (or just make them enter long/lat on their own), then add a map spot dynamically using $(thisIsMyInputId).val() and taking the values and using them as arguments in a new function that basically mirrors the xml.each() function. of course you’d have to make some variables more global (e.g. bounds), but this way you can add as many points as you want, give them choices of markers, etc. and it wouldn’t take that long to do at all.

if it’s more of an app where each user is adding to a community-created array and that array keeps building, i’m not sure you’d want to do that without making them log in anyway, for security reasons. but yes, you could use EE and field values with a function to add them to a collection which then would get parsed in the next XML grab.

hope that helps!

- bob

ps - this code is up and running at http://www.bostonteacherresidency.org/profiles/#second (click on any one of the schools, though right now they only have one pin per map)

I’m trying to make a little web app that will allow users to add places on the map. Do you know if there is a way to let users populate a weblog? I’m looking for something like the comments plugin but that will let me direct data from user-side form fields to weblog fields without making people login as a user or something.

It would be way easier to use EE than straight up php and mysql.

Great tutorial. :) Is this map live someplace?

first question, and i apologize if it’s a duh question, but did you initialize it with a $().load(function() { BH.maps.load }); ??

if you did, and you want to send me your code i can poke through it and see if there was something i missed in my description. it’s the first of my first and my whole last at the domain name for my email.

- bob