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

2010-09-22 Thread Fabio Renzo Panettieri
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:10 +0800, maning sambale wrote: > Any real world cases for this? Imagine the following scenario: * 50 ~ 70 digitizers * 5 QA * 1 Manager Each QA has 10 digitizers assigned. After all the data is validated, the manager merges it and generates the geodb. All users work a

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

2010-09-21 Thread maning sambale
Any real world cases for this? >>> >>> 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 sam

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

2010-09-21 Thread Raj Singh
Just to add another option to the discussion, OGC has a Geosynchronization specification getting close to being finalize. It uses XML requests from the Web Feature Service - Transactional spec to describe actions on a spatial database such as add, modify, delete. Like CouchDB, it also doesn't sp

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

2010-09-20 Thread Noli Sicad
There is also discussion in Spatialite google group about synchronizing - Interaction and syncing between PostGIS and SpatiaLite. http://groups.google.com/group/spatialite-users/browse_thread/thread/737ba2c600b0a204 Noli On 9/21/10, Paolo Corti wrote: >>> Use case: >>> 1. I get a subset of t

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

2010-09-20 Thread Paolo Corti
>> 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 >> applica

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

2010-09-20 Thread 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 f

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

2010-09-20 Thread Joseph Gentle
Quite possible. What you want there is operation transformation (OT) - the same system google wave uses to do concurrent editing. Its an active research area, though to my knowledge nobody has implemented OT for geospacial data. (Though I haven't looked). Should be very doable - couple months if

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

2010-09-20 Thread maning sambale
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 differe