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Re: Scouting using tablets

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Originally Posted by dcarr View Post
If you don't plan on utilizing an existing scouting system or creating your own, Google Drive/Docs can be very effective (in terms of collecting data through forms that feed into spreadsheets, tallying data in spreedsheets, cataloging photos, etc.). Also, the Android and iOS apps work offline, allowing changes and new items to be synced once connectivity to become available.
Correct me if I'm wrong because I've never used the Google apps in this context, but if you have more than one scout editing offline documents at any one time wouldn't that overwrite the changes of one of the scouts when they finally do sync up?
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