Re: naming of map projection module

[A . Bergman]

On tisdag, feb 11, 2003, at 08:15 Europe/Stockholm, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:53:16 -0900, Dan Stahlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

Greetings, Modules Group:
I am about to upload a module that is a wrapper around the GCTPc
library.  What this module does is convert coordinates from one map
projection to another.  It is currently named Cartography::Projection,
but I am thinking perhaps it should be renamed to Cartography::GCTP so
that it would be named after the underlying C library.  The advantage
is that the name would not clash with future projection libraries that
people may write, the disadvantage is that not everyone knows what
GCTP is.  Do you have any thoughts on this?

I prefer Cartography::GCTP because we may expect that cartographers
know about the library; and wannabee cartographers should read the
READMEs of all modules in the Cartography namespace.

--
andreas

Why not Cartography::Projection::GCTP

Then perhaps in the future Cartography::Project can be a single API against different backends.

Arthur