Patent US 9,733,814

Systems and methods are disclosed for generating recommendations for places within a geographic area that are of interest to a user's social group, in one or more social networks, and more particularly where user interest is reflected by the posting of geo-tagged photographs of the places of interest and associated metadata. In one embodiment, an application for a mobile device presents a user with a list of geographic locations visited by one or more other users that the user follows on a social network. The user may select from the list and/or drill down to deeper levels in the list and then make a selection. Responsive to the selection, the application will retrieve from related databases identifying information for photographs associated with the selected geographic location, where the photographs were contributed by the users being followed and designated by them as being of interest, and display the identifying information. The user can then select one or more of the photographs for retrieval and display.