A geo-spatial environment, using a processor and a memory, comprising:
- a first instruction set to enable a community network, to include a map database associated with map data, a user database associated with user profiles, each user profile of the user profiles associated with a specific geographic location identifiable in the map data, and an advertisement database associated with advertisements, each advertisement of the advertisements associated with a user profile of the user profiles;
- a second instruction set integrated with the first instruction set to display a map view embodied by the community network, a user profile of the user profiles represented at a location in the map view corresponding to the associated specific geographic location, and an advertisement associated with the user profile of the user profiles;
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- a third instruction set to generate a commerce transaction associated with the user profile
- a fourth instruction set to generate an online payment transaction associated with the user profile of the user profiles;
- a fifth instruction set to provide at least a portion of the user profiles available to accept an advertisement;
- a sixth instruction set to provide search categories, to enable selection of at least one search category of the search categories, to determine at least one advertisement associated with a selected at least one search category, and to identify at least one user profile of the user profiles associated with the at least one advertisement;
- a seventh instruction set to verify that each user of the community network lives at a residence associated with a claimable residential address of the community network formed through a social community module of a privacy server using a processor and a memory, to obtain from each user of the community network, using the processor of a computing device, member data associated with each user, the member data including an address, to associate the address with a profile of each user, to determine a location of each user based on the member data, to store the member data in a database, and to obtain a personal address privacy preference from each user, the personal address privacy preference specifying if the address should be displayed to other users;
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- an eighth instruction set to optionally extend a threshold radial distance to an adjacent boundary of an adjacent neighborhood based a request of the particular user, to generate a separate login to the online community designed to be usable by at least one of a police department, a municipal agency, a neighborhood association, and a neighborhood leader associated with the particular neighborhood, to permit at least one of the police department, the municipal agency, the neighborhood association, and the neighborhood leader to at least one of invite residents of the particular neighborhood themselves using the privacy server using a self-authenticating access code that permits new users that enter the self-authenticating access code in the online community to automatically join the particular neighborhood as verified users, to generate at least one of a virtual neighborhood watch group and an emergency preparedness group restricted to users verified in the particular neighborhood using the privacy server, to conduct high value crime and safety related discussions from local police and fire officials that is restricted to users verified in the particular neighborhood using the privacy server, to broadcast information across the particular neighborhood, and to receive and track neighborhood level membership and activity to identify leaders from the restricted group of users verified in the particular neighborhood using the privacy server.