Map based neighborhood search and community contribution
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1. A method, comprising:
- associating a verified registered user with a user profile;
associating the user profile with a specific geographic location;
generating a map concurrently displaying the user profile and the specific geographic location; and
simultaneously generating, in the map, wiki profiles associated with different geographic locations surrounding the specific geographic location associated with the user profile.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus and system of map based community search and neighborhood contribution are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes associating a verified registered user with a user profile, associating the user profile with a specific geographic location, generating a map concurrently displaying the user profile and the specific geographic location and simultaneously generating, in the map, wiki profiles associated with different geographic locations surrounding the specific geographic location associated with the user profile.
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1. A method, comprising:
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associating a verified registered user with a user profile; associating the user profile with a specific geographic location; generating a map concurrently displaying the user profile and the specific geographic location; and simultaneously generating, in the map, wiki profiles associated with different geographic locations surrounding the specific geographic location associated with the user profile. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system comprising:
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a plurality of neighborhoods having registered users and unregistered users of a global neighborhood environment; a social community module of the global neighborhood environment to generate a building creator in which the registered users may create and modify empty wiki profiles, building layouts, social network pages, and floor levels structures housing residents and businesses in the neighborhood; a wiki module of the global neighborhood environment to enable the registered users to create a social network page of themselves, and to edit information associated with the unregistered users identifiable through a viewing of physical properties in which the unregistered users reside when the registered users have knowledge of characteristics associated with the unregistered users; a search module of the global neighborhood environment to enable a people search, a business search, and a category search of any data in the social community module and to enable embedding of any content in the global neighborhood environment in other search engines, blogs, social networks, professional networks and static websites; a commerce module of the global neighborhood environment to provide an advertisement system to a business who purchase their location in the global neighborhood environment in which the advertisement is viewable concurrently with a map indicating a location of the business, and in which revenue is attributed to the global neighborhood environment when the registered users and the unregistered users click-in on a simultaneously displayed data of the advertisement along with the map indicating a location of the business; and a map module of the global neighborhood environment to include a map data associated with a satellite data which serves as a basis of rendering the map in the global neighborhood environment and which includes a simplified map generator which may transform the map to a fewer color and location complex form using a parcel data which identifies at least some residence, civic, and business locations in the satellite data. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A global neighborhood environment, comprising:
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a first instruction set to enable a social network to reside above a map data, in which the social network is associated with specific geographical locations identifiable in the map data; a second instruction set integrated with the first instruction set to enable users of the social network to create profiles of other people through a forum which provides a free form of expression of the users sharing information about any entities and people residing in any geographical location identifiable in the satellite map data, and to provide a technique of each of the users to claim a geographic location to control content in their respective claimed geographic locations; and a third instruction set integrated with the first instruction set and the second instruction set to enable searching of people in the global neighborhood environment by indexing each of the data shared by the users of any of the people and entities residing in any geographic location. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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