Open source software is produced by distributed teams rarely in the same place at the same time, rarely working on the same thing at the same time, yet they consistently produce better results than their closed source and proprietary counterparts. A big part of their continued success is open source's unique workflow and tools. What would it look like to treat geospatial data with the same respect that open source developers treat their code? What if we took the tools and workflows of open source and used them to create collaborative geospatial tools and datasets, even if that data was ultimately never public?