<br><font size=2><tt>Dave,</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>IMO:</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>> <snip><br>
> Essentialy I am looking for a means to store data and tap into OGC
<br>
> services to serve the data out. Also allow access for a group of people
<br>
> to edit tables, data and such... almost a virtual server.<br>
> </snip><br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>An admirable goal.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Have you given thought as to how you will trace individual
edits, and reverse them if necessary? </tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>People will have varying levels of expertise and access
to source data of varying quality. While I suspect that most will do the
right thing, there is also the possibility of incompetent edits or even
of sabotage.</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>A concern that I have with this type of process is
that, assuming that you start with a dataset that has been maintained under
controlled QA conditions for a number of years and is of known quality:
</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>- how can you have the same level of confidence in
the quality of the data, once it has been opened up for external edit?
This is particularly of concern if the dataset is used for analysis and
decision making purposes?</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Bruce Bannerman</tt></font>
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