Quote Originally Posted by mpirie View Post
I'm watching this thread with interest.

One thing that occurred to me with the discussions around "cloud" services was the need to be online to update or query the database.

How would you cope when you were outside cell-phone/wi-fi coverage? You would need to record details during the taking phase and find a way to synchronise the datasets once a connection was restored.

Mike
One way to deal with this would to allow syncing when WiFi is available, and cache the data when a connection is unavailable (or the server is offline, etc). I.e. store it on the phone until the phone is able to connect. I know of quite a few apps that function that way, but don't know how to write an app myself, or even if I need to. The data storage/transfer requirements in this case would be minimal, as it's only a few lines of text.

There might be some other system I can simply re-purpose.

Simple is better.