[OSGeo-Discuss] "git" like for geodata management

[Volker Mische]

On 20.09.2010 11:48, maning sambale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just something for brainstorming.
>
> Use case:
> 1. I get a subset of the data for field work for a couple of days.
> Coming back from field work, I "sync" the edits to the main data
> server.  An application takes care of the merge like git does.
>
> 2. Two field workers, edit the same data on a different area.  An
> application manages the conflict before merging to main data server.
>
>

Hi,

for the sync part you should have a look at CouchDB [1]. Though it 
doesn't do the hard part of resolving conflicts. This part would need to 
be coded.

[1] http://couchdb.apache.org/

Cheers,
   Volker