Geo Meta Aggregation

Scott Smith, has a great post over at Smartspace, bringing up the big question of aggregating places, maps, geo-metadata. It's as if he overheard Stefan, Felix, Jyri, Anselm, Di-Ann and I feeling around for the common value that could be had if such a dedicated mission to shared place date was to exist.

• What would it look like?
• Who would join and who would refuse?
• What atomic bits would need to be included?
• How is it related to the ongoing geodata standards conversations?
• But most of all, what would be the simplest, fastest, cheapest way to get it up and running?