Server-managed location-based social media galleries

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the system to perform operations comprising:
• at a server system for a social media application, managing a location-based social media gallery in a process comprising
• maintaining at the server system a named data structure that indicates an anchor location specific to the location-based social media gallery, the location-based social media gallery comprising a set of social media items, each social media item having geo-tag data indicating a geographic location associated with the anchor location;
• causing display on a user device of a map-based GUI for the social media application, the map-based GUI including a map representing a geographical area;
• causing display of a gallery icon at the anchor location on the map, the gallery icon being an interactive user-selectable GUI element representing the location-based social media gallery;
• and
• enabling user-selective triggering, via selection of the gallery icon, of automated sequential replay on the user device of the set of social media items of the social media gallery.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause operations comprising:

• at a server system for a social media application, managing a location-based social media gallery in a process comprising maintaining at the server system a named data structure that indicates an anchor location specific to the location-based social media gallery, the location-based social media gallery comprising a set of social media items, each social media item having geo-tag data indicating a geographic location associated with the anchor location;
• causing display on a user device of a map-based GUI for the social media application, the map-based GUI including a map representing a geographical area;
• causing display of a gallery icon at the anchor location on the map, the gallery icon being an interactive user-selectable GUI element representing the location-based social media gallery;
• and
• enabling user-selective triggering, via selection of the gallery icon, of automated sequential replay on the user device of the set of social media items of the social media gallery.