I'm thinking of people (geo nerds) who like to look at maps and remark about things. Not people who want to tell the world they're at Starbucks.
Have you used Foursquare recently? While it originally focused on broadcasting one's location, it's more about social recommendations now, which really isn't far from "social map annotation" in practice. Especially when you have people leaving notes in parks and bridges and buildings telling you about neat features and not just "the denver omelette is amazing here!"
I have not, that's pretty interesting. Looks like I have some browsing to do between Wikimapia and Findery.
Thanks, guys/gals.
Pretty sure they have some of those already. There's OpenStreetMap, and I seem to recall another project which was more "name this rectangular area" oriented... I forget its name... anyone want to help me out here?