Last night’s meeting of the Web 2.0 Mapping Meetup at Google focused on two great things that go great together: Web 2.0 user collaboration and mapping software. The speakers and their mapping/adventure travel content solutions were all over the map. On one side was the REI solution. REI is a billion dollar company or co-op (depending on your point of view) that has been around since 1938 and has almost 100 stores. Their solution was a work in progress. The speaker was really still figuring out what directions to take it and was looking for feedback from the audience.

On the other side was Eye-Fi, a 20-person that produced location smart cards that could be put into any camera and send the geo-tagged photo via wifi to a network storage like Flickr.

In the middle was KQED Quest, a local PBS station that is looking to geotag all of their content and make it available on the web. Many of the major pieces of their site are together, but many more are still in the works.