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   by gmaclennan 10y ago

   Substack can probably give a better answer, but my understanding is that CouchDB only holds a version history since the last replication between clients, and then conflicts need to be resolved before replication can continue, after which ve
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   by gmaclennan 10y ago

   Yes, right now this is for setting up your own "OpenStreetMap" that will work offline. The author of this work, substack, is also working/thinking about p2p infrastructure for OSM. See https://peermaps.github.io&#x
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   by gmaclennan 10y ago

   If two or more peers edit the same record, it doesn't create a conflict but instead that record simply has two versions in the database - like a fork in a git repo. These can be merged at any time in the future, but prior to that two v
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   Osm-p2p: a peer-to-peer distributed OpenStreetMap database(digital-democracy.org)

   117 points by gmaclennan 10y ago|14 comments
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   OpenStreetMap without servers(digital-democracy.org)

   2 points by gmaclennan 10y ago|0 comments