I have not located a clear instructions on using google maps on IP showing members and vistors coming to site. Does anyone know where to find instructions on this that is working and not having issues?

have a look here : http://clustrmaps.com/es/index.htm
this might be interresting for you
its updatet every day

to see it working have a look on mi site

its in one of the blocks on the right site on portal

that is not bad but not enough detail as to the member locations and vistors. I think it would be nice maybe to have 2 maps one with members and another with vistors showing IP addresses and names. This way members can locate other members near to them. And I can not aford the expenses of that.

There is a MOD for phpBB2 called Phoogle Maps.  It allows your members to pinpoint their location on a map everyone can view.  They pinpoint their location via profile.  It features their username, avatar, and smiley.  I used this for a while, but got tired of it being buggy on my Icy Phoenix board.

You may be able to Google it and find a copy because phpBB.com is down right now.

This MOD might be a possibility for you:

Track Visitors To Your Website Using Google Maps

I don't believe it has the features you are talking about, but it is pretty cool.  Perhaps this could be used to track your visitors and the Phoogle Map could be used to track your members.

- I'm going to move this to English Chit-Chat.

another possibility might be to integrate the map function of FF.

FF has a MOD that works more or less the way you want.

i think it has something to do with Yahoo-maps

What is FF?

That would be Firefox.

it is FireFox.

theres an issue FF has got that shows you the location. it´s got something to do with yahoo.maps

its probably possible to adapt that to IP.

i´m trying that at the moment.

just got to have a look there to chsnge some lines of code.

you can try here aswell www.geovisite.com