During our travel I started programming a filemaker based database and now it’s getting more and more functions.
I like to do databases and solve problems make it good to use. So now after 11 month of traveling the database can handle this:
- the database works with fmtouch for the iPhone so you can sync!
- usually daily information about country, route, altitude of start and endpoint, travel part
- cycling time, distance, up- and downhill
- adding elevation profile and gps track
- weather, overnighting and breakdown information
- it counts cycling days, other transportation and rest days. Even with combination of like cyling and others transportation (short busride between), crossing a border 40% cycling first country and 60% the second and so on.
- all finance with first budget, either by travel part or more detailed by travel part and country.
- categories of finance: food, hosting, misc., short transportation, far transp., activities, acquirement and costs at home like taxes or insurance (this is separated from the travel part)
- control of budget, actual and expansion for the rest days by travel part or either detailed by country.
- control of average costs of all categories.
- html export detailed list of each day sorted by country or just a country total
(selecting countries to export) like these records - possibility to export each field in a excel file and much more formats
May you figured out – that’s not my first language ;-), so I didn’t like to translate all the fields, tables, scripts, list and so on… if you see mistakes, feel free and tell me or don’t mind! 😉
If anybody is interested let me know and I’ll send you the filemaker file and may if there are some people more, I’ll write a documentation… but so far it’s good for people who are not afraid of computer and may know how to work with filemaker.
