Developing a HTML5 offline storage solution for iOS/Android in 2011
The problem: I need a device agnostic (e.g. HTML5) solution for storing and querying 250,000+ rows of data offline on a phone or tablet type device (e.g. iOS/Android). The idea being I have people working in remote areas without any cellular data connection and they need to run queries on this data and edit it while offline. Partly it will be geo-location based so if there are assets in the area they are in (uses GPS) then it will show those assets and let them be edited. When they return to the office they can sync the data back to the office server. The reason that I'm approaching this from