PROVIDING AGGREGATE USER-SUPPLIED INFORMATION RELATED TO LOCATIONS ON A MAP

摘要

Techniques are described for automatically obtaining and sharing various types of user-supplied information about entities of interest, such as businesses and/or people. In at least some situations, information about location and other current status of entities of interest is also tracked, and such location-related and other status-related information may also be provided to and used by at least some users. For example, users may be able to request and receive maps of geographical areas, with a variety of types of information displayed on a map about at least some entities of interest whose locations are associated with the map. In addition, a user may designate or otherwise define one or more groups that include other specified users, and may select a current user aggregation group for use in the sharing of user-supplied information, such that only information from users of the current user aggregation group is provided to the user for at least some types of information.