Patent ID: 8583668

Claim:
A method comprising the steps of: receiving, over a network, a request for a map from a requesting user, the request comprising an identification of a physical location, and a context of the requesting user comprising social criteria, topical criteria and temporal criteria relating to the requesting user; in response to receiving the request for a map, mapping, via the network, the physical location; in response to receiving the request for a map, formulating, via the network, a query based on the context so to as to search for spatial, temporal, topical, and social data available to the network relating to the physical location and the context; retrieving, via the network, the spatial, temporal, topical, and social data using a global index of data available to the network comprising a global graph that relates a plurality of entities known to the network with one another; and displaying, on a display medium, the map of the physical location and at least some of the retrieved spatial, temporal, topical, and social data.