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!
MOSS / Moss Maps (like FOSS but natural)
Fossify Maps 😁😎
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
Collab Maps
Shared Maps
Collective 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
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
Carbon Maps
A play on organic meaning carbon-based (as in organic chemistry). Also I feel like it should be easy(ish) for speakers of other languages to pronounce. I may be wrong though!
OurMaps
Maps 'r Us
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… 🤔
CoCoMaps (community + collaboration)
Unfortunately there seems to be existing software with this name.
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.
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
I’ll duplicate it here
Pastk said: cOSMaps (co-OSM-maps) COSMOS Maps (Co-OSM-OpenSource)
And some ideas with the help of AI: COLABMAP (Collaborative Open Libre Access Based Mapping Application Platform) **COMMAP **Community Oriented Modern Mapping Access Project
to be honest, no word makes me completely satisfied.
@CubeOfCheese WayNow
“There is freedom within, there is freedom without”
“Don’t dream it’s over”Seems appropriate for an Organic Maps fork 😄
