GIS Data for Social Networks
While social networking is focused on who is connected, seeing where those people are (and have been) is becoming a huge part of meeting up with friends in the real world and establishing online social status. Geofencing, a process whereby users are notified when they or their friends cross virtual geofences, offers a host of opportunities to enhance the social networking experience.
Maponics offers a variety of products and services to meet the developing needs of social networking sites and applications. All Maponics products can be integrated with one another.
Neighborhood Boundaries
Neighborhoods are an important geography for people to connect socially. Let Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries™ advance your social networking site.
Shopping Boundaries
Shopping Boundaries can be used as geofences to connect and bring together people using social networking.
College Campus Boundaries
Maponics College Campus Boundaries™ provides campus boundaries for 1,000 institutions across the U.S. and Canada and can be used by students to engage socially both on and off campus while maintaining their privacy.
ZIP Code Boundaries
Where neighborhood boundaries can be key for people in large metros, ZIP Codes become more significant in the less densely populated areas of the United States.
Custom Services
Maponics offers world-class custom GIS mapping services to handle your specific geographic projects and challenges for your social networking sites and applications.
Learn More
Learn how Social Networks and other applications are using geographic areas, like neighborhoods, to define geofences and expand how friends connect. Download free PDF by following link below:
"Where Are Your Friends? Social Networking in Social Spaces"
from GeoWorld - April 2011
Customer Use Case
When Twitter introduced their Tweet location feature, they turned to us to supply the neighborhood place information to enable users the choice of geo-tagging their location at the neighborhood level. Read more.
