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How can we deal with this situation? Do we need to look at distributed<br>
version control in software development? How can methods of DVC be<br>
adapted to deal with distributed spatial data maintenance?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Tag each object additionally with a changeset ID (e.g: a timestamp or a sequence number). That way you can see the history of a group of changes, and do sensible conflict resolution.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the case of imports (where you know the previous changeset ID), you can then probably do a considerable amount of automatic conflict resolution.</div><div><br></div></div>