[geojquery] Re: Name change

[Anne Blankert]

 +1 on MapQuery

I am taking the liberty of summarizing the discussion. This summary may
be somewhat biased to my preference of MapQuery, so please feel free to
comment if you think the other options need more support.

GeojQuery
pros: it is already here, domain is claimed, name is published,
announced at foss4g, no renaming hassle, etc
cons: difficult to pronounce Geo-Jay-Query. The name pattern is more or
less a copy of the name 'Geo-Ext'

MapQuery
pros: same pattern as GeojQuery but much easier to pronounce, the
project  is more about 'maps' than 'geo', the word 'query' is used in
the same way as in jQuery, the project is about querying and presenting
maps like jQuery is about querying and presenting DOM elements.
cons: renaming hassle, some people find the word 'query' confusing, what
is there to query? 'MapQuery' loses direct reference to jQuery.

jQuery-spatial
pros: many other spatially related projects use '-spatial' in the same
name pattern. JQuery advises to name plugin files 'jquery.xxx' where xxx
is the projectname. It is a pro when file name and project name match.
cons: renaming hassle, pattern is same as 'jquery-ui' which might make
people believe that jQuery-spatial has the same 'official' jQuery status
as the -ui project. The word 'Spatial' does not map really well on
visualizing maps.

This overview brings me to:

jQuery-map
cons: this is already used for the jQuery.map() method.


Regards,

Anne

On 9/27/2010 10:46 AM, Volker Mische wrote:
> On 09/11/2010 06:14 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> the code sprint at the FOSS4G was great, thanks all that were coming. I
>> wasn't happy with the name "geojquery" from the start, but couldn't
>> think of anything better. At the code sprint that changed. Therefore I'd
>> like to propose a new name we came up with at the code sprint:
>>
>> MapQuery
>>
>> Please vote on it (+1 yeah great!, 0 I don't care, -1 no! leave it as is
>> or change it to something different).
>>
>> Feel free to propose other names.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Volker
> It's time to revive this thread. The thread was basically dead without a
> result. So please use this one again for discussions. After that I will
> start a vote again on the name that we found via the discussion on that
> thread (this time with proper [vote] prefix).
>
> This weekend I was at the JSConf.eu and had the chance to talk to Jörn
> Zaefferer (jQuery UI) about the name. Using the full jQuery is probably
> be possible legal wise, though in my opinion it is a bit sketchy for
> calling it like this, as people would think it's connected to the main
> jQuery project.
>
> Am I right that there were two propositions: MapQuery and jQuery Spatial?
>
> In case you are annoyed by this thread feel free to send a mail to me
> off-list with a one liner that you don't care or in favour of one name.
>
> Cheers,
>   Volker
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