the website can cover the costs the location can pay or there can be a monthly fee in an embodiment a single site can have multiple sub locations such as the bottom of the empire state and the top of the empire state in an embodiment visiting any location in a city qualifies you as having visited the city a city can also create an official location such as in times square big marketing stunts can be made such as placing a locator on the top of mount everest advertisements can be for local restaurants and or shops one or more of which could be a location themselves it will be recognized that while the features and functions described above are described in relation to network components and user side components such features and functions can be implemented at any point in the network on single or multiple computers and or servers and network functions can also be duplicated at the user computer for functioning independent of the network if desired thus user side changes and or network side changes can be synchronized and or synchronized when a user returns to the network in manners known in the art or hereafter to become known while the description of the various embodiments of the invention are described in a server client network environment alternate embodiments of.