Slashgeo

All Points Blog links to Wikimapia.org. From the website: "WikiMapia is a project to describe the whole planet Earth. How to use: Just move the map to find interesting places, click on rectangles. To add an interesting place or object use Add New link. Note: Please only add places interesting to everyone. Who We Are: Wikimapia was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, inspired by Google maps and Wikipedia. " The site looks very promising however, it is unknown if users will embrace this new tool.

The Into The Pudding blog discuss why isn’t collaborative geodata a big deal already? From the introduction: "So if by Weber’s criteria geospatial data has a high chance for a true architecture of participation to form around, then why don’t we see more collaboratively built maps? Why do governments and commercial ventures dominate the landscape of geospatial data? Though there are several emerging examples, shouldn’t they be a bigger deal?" They are multiple projects on data collaboration, but Chris Holmes makes good points. The OpenStreetMap project (working on Bath right now) is one good example, wikimapia is another (Chris lists more examples).