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Great to see stuff like this! Data in general, and not just code, gets updated or corrected constantly. Given that data is used collaboratively in a distributed setting, it should be a first-class citizen wrt diffing and merging, just as line-wise text is. Anybody working in geophsyics or other data-heavy scientific fields should see the value in this approach.

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I was wondering about that. How DOES diffing work with this, like in a Geopackage?

I assume it just displays rows edited.

I don't see how they'd display anything other than points. That leaves XYZM for diffing.

They might be showing summary stats like length, perimeter, area, volume, but that's usually not easy to generalize.

Hi there,

Kart supports points, lines & polygons, as well as GeoTIFFs for imagery and LAZ for point clouds.

Kart is a CLI tool, but provides fully machine readable outputs. You can use the QGIS plugin to get a visual diff of vector feature changes though.

> You can use the QGIS plugin to get a visual diff of vector feature changes though.

This sounds like an amazing opportunity for a screenshot, btw :)

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