Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data

by cameronoliveron 8/4/2025, 6:35 AMwith 8 comments

by fyrn_on 8/6/2025, 7:47 AM

I work in the GIS space, and I've even built some simular systems, such a multiplayer map editing.

Even with that background I'm having a hard time understand _what_ this really is? Is it a git wrapper with some geospatial features? Why git for geospatial at all?

by ogigon 8/6/2025, 9:23 AM

I've worked in urban development for almost 10 years, and this was much needed. At several points I tried to implement a git worlflow for gis data since errors, rollbacks, and uncontrolled changes where incredibly common and sometimes very expensive. I failed because the miriad of formats. This projects hits a real need.