
Peer To Peer Mapping and Digital Democracy
The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
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How to Get a Copy of a Database on an Android Phone
Every participant in this network, and to me it sounds a little bit like a mesh network, somehow gets a copy of the database. They don't need internet, we normally kind of use kind of a little $20 Wi-Fi routers or routers to kind of set up a local Wi-Fi network without internet access that just provides a means for the phones to wirelessly connect to each other. So if three different people each install Map.io, they each go out and start collecting data individually, and then they configure it to join the same project,. If they come together and connect to aWi-Fi network and synchronize, they will all end up with the same data from all
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