Hamish Campbell

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Real life is boring. This lightening talk is all about things that aren't real. Bots that make maps, toosl for generatively creating fake maps, and map making tools for table-top gaming fans.

In this talk we'll cover the latest developments for Kart, the geospatial version control system built on Git. We've been busy over the last year, fixing bugs, adding features and improving performance.

Kart (https://kartproject.org) is an open source version control system built on Git, enabling you to work more efficiently and collaborate better. Kart allows you to quickly and easily manage history, branches, data schemas, and synchronisation for large & small datasets between different working copy formats, operating systems, and software ecosystems. In this talk we'll cover the challenges and improvements that have been made over the last year, and show off Kart's new superpower: Raster data handling!

Learn how to use Kart to version control your spatial data with the Kart CLI and QGIS plugin.

Kart (https://www.kartproject.org) is a powerful new open-source and cross-platform version control system for geospatial vector and table data. Designed to enable collaboration and cross-vendor workflows, Kart is built on the power of Git. Working copies are common GIS files and spatial databases, so you can edit data directly in GIS software without plugins. The workshop will introduce Kart and walk through installing; creating new repositories by importing open data sets; editing and committing data changes; reviewing history; cloning & pushing datasets; using and understanding different working copy formats; exporting repository data; managing metadata, licenses, and file attachments; performing branching and merging; and collaborating with other users. To participate, no experience with Kart, Git or other version control systems is required. **Prerequisite skills:** - Basic knowledge of GIS concepts and data formats. **Preparation required:** - A Windows, macOS, or Linux computer that has QGIS installed and can install Kart is required. **Book your ticket here:** https://ti.to/osgeo-oceania/foss4g-sotm-oceania-2023-workshops. *A total of 25 spaces are available.*