Well, to some extent, they do. Their geofencing [0] service takes in coordinates and returns the geofences these coordinates fall into. They make this faster by

Well, to some extent, they do. Their geofencing [0] service takes in coordinates and returns the geofences these coordinates fall into. They make this faster by pruning irrelevant geofences: >> Instead of indexing the geofences using R-tree or the complicated S2, we chose a simpler route based on the observation that Uber’s business model is city-centric; the business rules and the geofences used to define them are typically associated with a city. This allows us to organize the geofences into a two-level hierarchy where the first level is the city geofences (geofences defining city boundaries), and the second level is the geofences within each city. [0] https://eng.uber.com/go-geofence/ https://eng.uber.com/go-geofence/