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Just to exercise some nitpicking as a graduated cartographer: While mapping is as ambiguous as it gets, Cartographer seems to be quite the misnomer, since cart
by mxfh 10y ago
Just to exercise some nitpicking as a graduated cartographer:
While mapping is as ambiguous as it gets,
Cartographer seems to be quite the misnomer, since cartography is not about data collection, it's about representation (-graph-) of the data.
Geodesist would be a more analogously fitting, yet arguably ponderous term in my opinion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesy
- maxerickson 10y agoIt takes the sensor data as an input and outputs a representation. It "makes a map", so the name is a decent pun.
- bhaak 10y agoThis is an annoying habit of my fellow programmers. Thinking that a decent or not-so-decent pun would make a good project name.
- mxfh 10y agoTo follow up, of course Surveyor would be the proper name of the profession. Geodesy is the related/underlying science in respect to positioning on the earth. https://twitter.com/kennethfield/status/784163099615989760 https://twitter.com/kennethfield/status/784163099615989760