User-managed coupons in a geo-spatial environment

A system comprising:

• a geo-spatial environment having a plurality of business profiles and a plurality of residential profiles each marked above a view of a neighborhood;
• a set of markers indicating particular ones of the business profiles which have coupons in the geo-spatial environment as being available for redemption;
• and
• a central logic block to manage at least one of recognition, rewards, and promotion of user-generated coupons in the geo-spatial environment between interested ones of users each having at least one of residential profiles and business profiles and each indicating a physical location of the users.

A method comprising:

• capturing a location information of each user of a social network through an identification of a location of each user in a map;
• providing an incentive to the users of the social network to scan and upload coupons to the social network;
• automatically tagging the uploaded coupons based on the location information of each user;
• and
• enabling debits and credits between users who participate in a user generated coupon exchange between parties in the social network by providing credits and debits between business and residential users of the social network based on validity and redemption of the coupons in the social network.