Maptagging the Cooperation Landscape, an exercise in collective visual intelligence.

Maptagging the Cooperation Landscape, an exercise in collective visual intelligence.: "(Via Cooperation Commons): I invite our readers to help apply your collective wisdom to a project I've been working on for a long time, first by myself, then with Institute for the Future, and now with the Cooperation Commons. Help me put together two separate components that a number of people (Andrea Saveri and Kathi Vian foremost among them) have collaborated to create. Flickr participants can attach virtual notes to specific sectors of uploaded photographs. This makes it easier to identify people, and for friends, family, communities, or networks of interested bystanders to annotate photographs. When the photograph is a large, high-resolution map, chart, or conceptual diagram, individuals can add knowledge, ask queries, initiate discussions, about specific spatial locations on the map, chart, or diagram. A company could map out the collective knowledge its employees have about the demographics and culture of its sales territory. Experts from different disciplines could tag the map of a convergent territory, and use it as a b"