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!
Maybe Green Map with an even greater focus on the durability of the app?
I think we can choose the name of a famous cartographer whose name is easy to pronounce in any language.
And then,
[Cartographer Name] + [“Maps” in your language]
Under the 15th century heading, “Piri”, the cartographer who prepared the top map among the sample maps shown there, would be a good name.
Or maybe, “Orbis” and “Battista” under the 16th century heading.
So Piri Maps, Orbis Maps, Battista Maps, etc.
battista is long and would often be spelled wrong. Piri and Orbis are fine, but Orbis sounds better and starts with an O XD
Note that there is a university library software called orbis, but well you cant avoid that
Orbis makes me think of something sciency like the earth is in orbit or an orb. I like that
Males me think of Jacques Cartier whose surname sounds like Cartes (French for map).
Origami Maps
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!
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
Shared Maps
Collective Maps
Collab Maps
Fossify Maps 😁😎
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.
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
OurMaps
Maps 'r Us
Local Atlas?
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… 🤔
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
hard to spell, leaf, leave
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/
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
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.
