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thumb|Two geofences defined in a GPS application
A geofence is a virtual "perimeter" or "fence" around a given geographic feature. A geofence can be dynamically generated (as in a radius around a point location) or match a predefined set of boundaries (such as school zones or neighborhood boundaries).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “geofencing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.