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Hi everyone, I'm Hamish, PM for KartProject here. If you want to learn more about Kart:

  * Our CTO Rob Coup presenting on Kart at FOSS4G 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B-HB2Z3Vlc
  * Docs are available at https://docs.kartproject.org/en/latest/
  * We also have a QGIS plugin! This gives you visual diffs of vector feature changes. https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/kart/

Happy to answer any questions!

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Hi, thanks for sharing!

OSM got vandalized recently [0][1] and apparently the community is having a hard time restoring the data / reverting the edits.

Would using KartProject enable storing edits as commits which could then get easily reverted? Also localized commits?

[0] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/32.09438/34.77448

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/32.0914/34.7746&layers...

I touched on this a little in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075723 - but tldr; OSM has it's own versioning model, and their data model isn't a great fit for the flat-table structure of most of the GIS data we commonly work with.

That said, the general issue of "data supply chains" and keeping track of who did what, and when, is largely unsovled outside of OSM, and if you're looking after your own GIS data and you're concerned with tracking and detecting unwanted changes, Kart is a great option. You get all the cryptographic verifyability of git for free.

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