Computer hardware for localization and geolocation; computer software for geolocation; computer software for creating an on-line community for users to provide assistance to other users, form virtual communities, and engage in social networking; computer peripheral devices for localization; automated self-contained electronic location devices, namely, electronic devices for locating and tracking articles, lost articles, people, clothing and wearable items, domesticated and non-domesticated animals, animate and inanimate objects, motorized and non-motorized vehicles, wheeled and non-wheeled vehicles and devices, bicycles, aircraft, watercraft, envelopes, mailers, boxes, crates, containers, shipping containers, transportation containers, and packages and packaging using radio frequency, global positioning systems, cellular communication networks, wireless connections, short range wireless connections, and the Internet; electronic geolocation devices namely, sensors and tags containing transmitters and receivers