1. A computer implemented method comprising: receiving a request to search contact data providing contact information associated with at least one individual, at least a first portion of the contact data including private contact data associated with the at least one individual, at least a second portion of the contact data including shared contact data aggregated and maintained by a provider of a database service, the shared contact data being crowd sourced and provided by a plurality of users of the database service and stored in a virtual portion of a database system, at least a portion of the shared contact data being provided based on a credibility determination indicating a likelihood that the shared contact data is valid, the credibility determination based on a position of one of the users within an organizational hierarchy of an organization, the position of the one user based on an occupational title and at least one designated relationship between occupational titles of users; responsive to the request, retrieving search parameters and a first geographical location associated with a source of the request to define a first search; performing the first search of the contact data to identify a first contact based on the search parameters and based on the first geographical location, the first contact being identified based at least in part on a geographical distance between the first contact and the first geographical location; and generating a geographical representation of the first contact, the geographical representation being a map indicating a geographical location of the first contact on the map, the geographical representation capable of being displayed at a user interface of a computer system.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: updating the geographical representation by: performing a second search of the contact data to identify a second contact based on the search parameters and based on a second geographical location associated with the source of the request; updating the geographical representation to display on the map a geographical location of the second contact; and generating a notification indicating that the geographical representation has been updated, the notification capable of being displayed at the user interface of the computer system, wherein the second contact was added to the shared contact data of the database service provider by another user at a time after the identification of the first contact.