Brush or Pattern?

Hi Everyone,
I am very new with Adobe Photoshp (CS3) and I need to draw many lines on a map using the Pencil tool, but they must have certain look. One of them is a line with some triangles at equal interval as shown in this hand drawn picture. Sometimes this triangles are at right hand side sometimes left hand side of the line.
I tried making custom brush or pattern, but not working the way i want them. Any help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,

I would recommend to do this in Illustrator if possible.
In Photoshop a thing like the triangle line would in my opinion best be done with two Brushes applied to a Path on separate Layers; one Brush a hard edged round one and one a Brush Preset of a spade-shape and set to the proper Spacing an Angle.
Then use a Vector Mask to hide the triangles on one side. (see screenshots)

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