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

2010-09-24 Thread Raj Singh
Arnulf, that's exactly what the OGC Geosynchronization spec describes! Servers advertise their changes in a GeoRSS feed -- where the element describes the change in WFS-T XML. It's nicely loosely coupled, because as you eloquently state, clients can decide what they want to do with the "suggest

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

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Batty
Hi, Yes Smallworld did a lot of innovation in the area of version management and long transactions some 20 years ago, I was quite involved in all that. The technical paper you mention is at archive.org, a great resource for finding web pages that have disappeared! http://web.archive.org/web/200805

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

2010-09-24 Thread STEPHEN STANTON
I'm a bit surprised no-one mentions Smallworld. Weren't they at the forefront of version management almost 20 years ago? The following link to an interesting technical paper isn't currently working, but maybe it'll come back later: http://cfis.savagexi.com/pages/technical_paper_4 Steve > On

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

2010-09-24 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
This might be too far off the original idea... But: It might be interesting to look into a more disconnected way of "managing" geospatial data with the Web. As in having "servers" advertize latest changes in geometry and attributes using GeoRSS and "clients" picking these up and integrating the

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

2010-09-23 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Ragi, I agree. I think that we have a way to go yet to have something comparable to the ArcSDE / ArcGIS Multi-versioning and version conflict detection functionality. The advantage that the ArcSDE solution has is that edits are made directly within the database. This works well within an Enter