CorFun, Inc. has been making extensive use of the K2 Joomla component in our client projects for all kinds of things from catalogs to blogs to community sites. One of K2's greatest strengths is the ability to assign users to customizable User Groups. This is a great capability, but did have one limitation. When users log in, it is often desired to route them to specific pages based on their User Groups.

SOBI2 is the premier directory component for Joomla. JMaps takes SOBI2's power and extends it by taking the entries in the directory and putting it on interactive Google maps! This article gives an overview of what SOBI2 can do, and especially what you can build by combining SOBI2 with the JMaps module and plugins from CorFun!