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Should I use OpenLDAP or PostgreSQL for this?

I want to start a project to document my local government starting at
the municipal level and going upwards from there. I want to build an
interface to allow people to look up their representatives and their
public servants by issue and geographic area or issue and get their
contact information back.

I want it to to have fast lookups so community organizers will come to
my site first they want to find out who does what. I would also like it
to be able to scale geographically so I can get local activist could
have their own copy of the database on a local server that they can also
delegate access to. I would like to delegate updates to a development
version of the database to other people similar to Open Street Map, but
I would still like to verify changes so there won't be a flood of bad
data. The presentation and the data storage will be separate components.

Knowing this information could you tell me what data management engine
would be more appropriate for the task?