  In this paper, we propose the replacement of widely used models of
geo-information systems with a new conception based on network proximity.
Geo-information systems have attracted great attention and demonstrated big
progress in recent times, especially for mobile services. We can point out many
objective reasons for this. On the one hand, users require services, mainly at
their location, and on the other hand, location determination has become easy,
especially due to the proliferation of smartphones. But at the same time, the
actual geo-calculation are not needed by most of these services. For the
majority of geo-services, geo-coordinates are used only for searching and
organizing data. And the meaning of the service is to search for information
tied to the current location of the requesting party. In other words, in most
cases, service refers to data near the current location. So, our idea is to
build services directly on assessing to proximity and completely bypass
geo-calculations. It also opens the way for completely new services that were
impossible or difficult to implement with geo-computations.

Networking and Internet Architecture