Patent ID: 8750906

Claim:
A system for displaying information on a map via a display screen of a mobile device, the system comprising: a mobile device including a map application, wherein the map application is configured to: display a map, a zone of color over a portion of the map, and one or more user selectable map elements via a screen of the mobile device based on instructions received from a server, wherein the zone of color is indicative of a concentration of people within a geographic region who are associated with a user of the mobile device; wherein at least one of the one or more user selectable map elements is associated with two or more people, and wherein the mobile device has access to contact information for the two or more people; display a communication interface featuring a communication option via a screen of the mobile device permitting the user to select the communication option upon user selection of the at least one map element associated with each of the two or more people; and initiate a communication with each of the two or more people based upon user selection of the communication option, wherein the communication with the two or more people is initiated upon user selection of the communication option, and using the contact information for the two or more people; and a server accessible via a telecommunications network, wherein the server includes: a location determination component, wherein the location determination component is configured to identify a location for the mobile device; a mapping component, wherein the mapping component is configured to associate the location for the mobile device with the map, the zone of color over the portion of the map, and the one or more map elements; and a communication component, wherein the communication component is configured to send instructions to present the map and the one or more map elements placed on the presented maps to the mobile device.