Another CA user, KenS (Kenneth Sayward) developed an iPhone app called MobileStogie. It was a pretty good app. He sold it to someone else, who dropped the ball. If you have it you can still use it, but it cannot be downloaded anymore.
In any case, if you can get in touch with Ken he might be a good source of info.
The app had a shared database of cigars and allowed you to keep (and export) your own database. You defined humidors and then added cigars to your humidor by marca, vitola, year, etc. You could also add new marcas and vitolas to your database. If you sent them in to Ken, he would update the common database and everyone would have access to them in the next database update.
You could review and add comments. All of the reviews and comments are private in MobileStogie, but an option to share them would be useful.
I know I did not really answer your questions -- but it's kind of like "Field of Dreams" --
if you build it, they will come.
This could be a fun project, but it's a big one
