1. A method comprising facilitating a processing of and/or processing (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal, the (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal based, at least in part, on the following: a monitoring of one or more communications exchanged within one or more social networks; a processing of user generated content within the one or more communications to determine map-related information; an extraction of one or more data items from the one or more communications; a designation of the one or more data items as at least a portion of the map-related information based, at least in part, on one or more threshold criteria; a processing of the map-related information to determine pattern information based, at least in part, on one or more detected changes in the map-related information; and at least one determination to make the map-related information and the pattern information available to one or more mapping services, one or more location-based services , or a combination thereof.