Your are different. The beauty of geogroups is that you need not pigeonhole yourself to society's (er.. app developers..) expectations. Besides the regular bars and pubs, restaurants, nightclub, wifi-hotspots groups, there are a large number of groups which most likely cater to just your specific interest, stuff that you would never find in typical local search.

Don't find what you need? Create it. There is very high likelihood that someone somewhere shares something in common with you.

Work and family. With GeoGroups, you can create a private group and add your family members to it, along with your everyday locations, including home, workplaces, schools, after-school classes and so on.

 - Quickly check where everyone is at any given time, in one step, without having to call just to ask "Where are you?"

 - Need to send a location to a family member? No need to speak the address and directions over the phone. Just add the new location to the group and it will be instantly visible to all family members. They can now navigate easily from their current location at the touch of a button. On top of that, you will also be able to track their progress to know when they arrive.

And when pressed for time, public groups like speed traps, red light cameras will always come in handy

Do you have mappable content and wish:

• There was an easy way to reach end-users?
• There was a way to monetize your data?
• Be able to easily deploy real-time updates?
• All of the above without having to build your own app and server infrastructure?

With GeoGroups, all you need to do is create a public group and bulk upload your data set with all customizations included.
If you already have an account, goto the Bulk Upload page to explore further.

Fishing? Birdwatching? Hiking? Biking? Waterfall hunting?

Regardless of what you want to do on a particular day, you will likely find someone has already created a group.

The concept is not to get a database of locations, but rather contribute your own activity. Caught a fish? Post a picture of your catch in the fishing spots group. Took at dip in a remote mountain waterfall? Post a picture in the waterfalls group.

Additionally, you or others may choose to share their current location in the relevant group near popular spots. This will allow other like minded-folks to be aware of your presence and break the ice when needed. The great thing is that you can have your location become automatically invisible in that group after a set period of time, to keep your privacy intact once you are headed back.

Don't see the group of your choice? Create it. Remember, by being the owner of a popular group, you will reap significant benefits down the line (including advertising revenue and so on

Airports, hotels, lunch places, wifi-hotspots, flying, all that you do on the move.
Know some good tips about a lounge at an airport? Share with others!

Want to quickly find the nearest place to make some copies or mail documents?

Remember, the more you contribute non-typical information, the more useful the resource will become.

Are you a group of colleagues travelling to different customer locations in a new city? Simply create a private group and share your locations in that group for the duration of the trip. At the outset, you could even put the customer locations in the group to easily navigate from the airport/hotel without having to lookup and type the address.
For dynamic situations, the GeoGroups app even allows you to instantly send your current-location to anyone with an email address.

Are you looking to make your government agency more responsive and interactive with your citizens, but not quite sure how?

Have you ever wondered how your citizens could report graffiti sightings, or newly developing hazards, potholes, or even crime, without having to go through complex bureaucratic processes?

 - Lets say you are responsible for graffiti cleanup in the city of RichDale.
 - All you need to do is create a public group called "richdale graffiti" and advertise the group name in your city.

Now whenever a concerned citizen wants to report a case of blight, either in progress or older, she simply needs to fire up the GeoGroups app, snap a picture of the offending mural, and submit to the richdale-graffiti group.

 - You will be able to instantly see the new report on the group's webpage on a desktop, on a map with picture attached.

 - Depending on severity of the incident,, you could either dispatch someone immediately to investigate and cleanup, or process recent reports every morning.

If you are tasked with tourism, haven't you wondered if you could direct your visitors to a destination on their smartphones to get local information about your city on a map, including landmarks, must see spots, sponsored businesses, construction areas, current hazards etc, and also allow those visitors to leave feedback?

Again, all you need to do is create a public group with the appropriate name, and populate it at the outset with as much local information you have, and advertise the group name at all visitor information sites.

Note that the web interace allows you to make any changes, additional, deletions, or updates at any time to any content in the group.

Our favorite. Because it amply demonstrates the power and breadth of the GeoGroups platform, and how it turns a complex and expensive task into a simple, nearly free activity.

Do you organize or host any kind of sporting event where competitors move from point A to point B, whether on land, water or air?
You might be having checkpoints at various intervals to track progress, and also to update statistics to report to viewers/fans.

Don't you wish you and event fans could follow the progress of the entire event in real-time? With GeoGroups you can!

In October 2009, the Raid-de-Himalaya, the highest motor rally in the world, was followed just like this by thousands of fans from both their desktops and mobile phones.

The system will allow you to input detailed information for all competitors profiles, histories, pictures, the event track or path if present, important checkpoints and iconography.

Then at action time, your viewers will be able to see all this detail on a map along with the competitors real-time locations being updated automatically, in a fun social networking context. Both from a desktop and mobile phone.

The most important part is, you do not need to build your own app or invest in any kind of software development to support all of the above.

Contact us to find out more details.

Regardless of the kind of business your organization is in, there are times when some employee needs to keep track of another employee.

This becomes especially important when any of your employees are engaged in hazardous or dangerous jobs. Or you might be a company with large numbers of field personnel who either need to be tracked centrally, or collaboratively.

Or you may be responsible for security or management at geographically large workplaces like amusement parks and event hosting convention centers.

If you have tried the typically available location sharing tools, you will have realized how quickly they become unwieldy because of having to maintain huge buddy lists on every device. Imagine, a new employee joining will require adding that new employee to every existing device's buddy list.

When using GeoGroups, all you need to do is create a private group for your organization, and centrally add all employees and manage all configuration and permissions. Now all permitted employees will be able to view other permitted members' locations, along with other important points of interest like customer locations and so on.

The group can even be configured to only allow central headquarters to view everyone's location. In such a configuration, individual employees may only update their location in the group, but not see anybody else's location.

Contact us to find out how to setup large managed groups with enterprise level support, or to acquire and host the system yourself.

Are you a plumbing company with employee plumbers out and about during the day on various jobs?

Have you ever wanted to keep track of their whereabouts without being perceived as intrusive?

Simply create a private geogroup for your company, and provide your plumbers with a GeoGroups equipped phone.

Not only will you always have a live snapshot of your workforce, but you can also manage current and past customer locations within the group. Need to dispatch a plumber to a just arrived order? Simply add the location the group, find the closest plumber on the map, and dispatch the new location via the GeoGroups messaging system.

Need to find out where someone was at a given point in time? The desktop interface allows instantly plotting location history movement for upto a month.

Contact us to setup small enterprise groups with optimal configuration and support for location history.

Validating the serendipitous and unpredictable nature of the GeoGroups concept, we were pleasantly surprised to find that truck drivers on the move in North America were one of the earliest adopters and most active members of the GeoGroups eco-system.

Get access to weigh-stations, trucker friendly truck stops with trucker reviews, rest areas and more on the move.

Well, there you have it. There may not be an app for that, but there is certainly a group for that.

Are you a mobile professional constantly on the move in your local area?

For example, if you are a real-estate agent, GeoGroups can make your work easier and customers more engaged. You can create your own public group with restricted access, and maintain all your current properties in the group.

Now, whenever a prospective client wishes to engage your services, simply invite her to join the group. Upon accepting, she will be able to easily browse through all your properties on a map on the phone, and independently navigate to each while on an exploratory trip with you.
You might even choose to share your current location within this group occasionally to let clients know where you are. Questions or comments about specific properties can be managed through the group itself.

Friends, family, academics, sports and social activities.

  - Join your family's group to keep them informed of your whereabouts.

  - Create exclusive private geogroups for various clubs or teams in your school.

  - Remember, you can be a member of multiple private groups without members of one private group being aware of your membership in another private group.

Sitting inside a coffee shop for extended periods of time? GeoGroups can still be useful for you.
Every post allows announcing your presence at that venue, without actually sharing your exact real-time location. Other users present at or near the venue can see your presence, announce themselves if they choose to, and engage in a group discussion specific to that venue.

With its vast variety and breadth of user base, GeoGroups is an advertiser's haven.

  - Advertisers essentially have access to the entire userbase, neatly segmented by user interest

  - But most importantly, ads in GeoGroups are targeted without intruding on user privacy. This because ads are targeted to a group, not to individual users.

  - For example, if you sell fishing related products, all you need to do is put your ad as a post on the map in the fishing-spots group, titled 10% off fishing rods today, with associated discount codes, pictures and barcodes.

 - You may choose to place the ad over your retail establishment, or you may place it near fishing hotspots as visible in group activty.

 - Now all members of the fishing spots group will be able to see your ad post on the map, but without any annoying pop-ups or marketing messages.

 - Any group member wishing to avail of the discount will simply walk into your establishment and hold up the ad view screen as proof of qualifying for the discount. To further close the loop you can scan directly from the screen any barcode image that you earlier uploaded as part of the ad post.

Within the GeoGroups eco-system, everything is an API, literally. All calls are based on the HTTP/REST/JSON paradigm.

Watch for an official API document, to be released soon.

Check it out. Who knows what you might find!