The availability of citizen media and geospatial tools enabled the initiation of a Collaborative Atlas. Project participants are creating a social geo platform to bridge people, neighborhoods, and nations to move beyond static geopolitical boundaries by adding and sharing Places and creating Maps. The Atlas launched in December and currently has over 100,000 Places including databases of fair trade retailers, vegan restaurants, UNESCO heritage sites, bike share hubs, kid-friendly locations, band tours, and sledding hills.

Eisnor shares the results of all of the Atlas' experiments in the form of a case study documenting:

• Development: The good and bad of building an application on top of open APIs (Google, ESRI, Yahoo!) and what, if anything, can be done with the open source geo-community to create an alternative.
• Usage: A survey of the collaborative geography (after 6 months); Similar Places, cultural bridges and gaps, and analysis of the annotation generated by our members.
• Business Model: The integration of our local advertising and co-op which is attempting to create excitement around supporting local business and sharing revenues with active users and content partners.