Edit: official voting now happening here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/34
Please comment with your name ideas.
One name per comment.
Top level comments should just be the name. You can put reasons and discuss each idea in the comments below each suggestion.
And vote on what you like!
Voting for names is now open:
@CubeOfCheese YaMap (Yet Another Map App)
Keep CoMaps.
I like this name: it’s cute, short and memorable. I also like that ‘co-’ can have multiple meanings (cooperation, coexisting, community, carbon monoxyde).
A quick search for comaps shows a couple different projects already using that name. comaps.de is some kind of map visualization. Using the comaps name could lead to some confusion.
When you search for “Gentoo”, you sometimes get results for a real estate company with the same name. Name collisions are nothing to fear about, unless the name is a registeted trademark in multiple countries.
Name collisions are okay if they are not in competing industries. That’s why you can have Apple computers. No one is going to confuse that trademark for an apple orchard company because it’s a completely different industry. In this case though, it looks like that other project is also related to mapping
Folk Maps
I like folk maps, really gives the correct community/citizen cartography vibe
+1 Folk Maps
Could you split it up so that it’s one name per comment please? To make voting easier
Sure thing! I have the split the options into multiple comments.
Oh um. I mean like each comment is completely independent. That way when people vote the top level comments are ordered appropriately
Collective Maps
Collab Maps
Shared Maps
Cartogrity (Cartography + Community)
I liked your suggestion quite a lot and came up with alternative based on it (the two words staying the same):
CartoUnity
Delta Maps (like the fork in the river)
It’s not bad, but
- There might be too many projects named “Delta ___”. (…I’m guessing. I can really only think of Delta Chat.)
- Is being a fork the only identity of this project? I would rather the name reflect other characteristics… 🤔
LibreMaps
Unfortunately there seems to be existing software with this name.
There’s MapLibre - a fork of Mapbox before it went full commercial
Also http://libremap.org/ and https://github.com/libremap/ (different projects as far as I can tell, one of them dormant).
That’s interesting, thanks for the links! Though seems both are dormant based on activity no? So they could be asked to let this project use the name possibly!
Edit: but of course it’s a hassle and a source for a lot of confusion at the same time I guess.
I didn’t check activity on the github entry. Just opened a couple repos to check in there’s an archived/retired message.
CoCoMaps (community + collaboration)
Unfortunately there seems to be existing software with this name.
Lief Maps
- after explorer Lief Erickson
Alternate spelling of Leaf Maps as well (since most people will mis-hear and type the English word rather than the name) and maybe a leafy Lief is the mascot ;)
Wait I think I like this better
It’s neat, but would cause confusion with https://leafmap.org/
hard to spell, leaf, leave
OurMaps
Maps 'r Us
In keeping with the “organic” theme, my submission is:
Free Range Maps
Common Maps
Open Planet
Unfortunately there seems to be existing software / websites with this name.
Orgasmic Maps
Maple
Idk, but Maple might be protected, as it’s already the name of a symbolic math software.
Map1e ?
🙃
Perfect.
because who doesn’t like its syrup
