>
> My only issue is that I can't find a single reference to that phrase
> outside of Local Lucene whereas I can find lots of references to the concept
> under names like: map tiles, map grids, spatial tiles, or just plain
> tiles/grids.
>
That doesn't mean cartesian tiers isn't a better description and that if
> Lucene was the first to implement such a thing we wouldn't even be having
> this conversation
>
Then perhaps spatial-lucene isn't the product for you? That is always an
option
> But the fact is, we're not the first and it appears to me like the majority
> of people out their use grid/tiles to describe this concept, for better or
> worse.
Depends the one product that I feel has always been a truer GIS solution is
postGIS (And to me this is where most GIS folks do their work)
http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.4/ch04.html
There's not a grid or tile in it- And it is by far the best thing out there.
Again my point is, that misnaming just to gather attention is the wrong
thing to do !
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsiasf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 29, 2009, at 2:14 PM, patrick o'leary wrote:
>
> >>
> >> You probably mean that to be derogatory, but it's related and not in a
> bad
> >> way. This is about effective communication, which marketing people
> >> understand.
> >
> >
> > Hence the term spatial-luence, or as it was originally called
> locallucene-
> > We are discussing an internal component, where folks want to change the
> name
> > of the methodology of how it works.
> >
> > To me it's like renaming the crank shaft in a car to the Spinning Wheel
> > Turner.
> >
>
>
> I totally understand where cartesian tier comes from and I get the math and
> all the explanation. It's a perfectly reasonable name and I don't have
> anything against it as far as the meaning it invokes. My only issue is that
> I can't find a single reference to that phrase outside of Local Lucene
> whereas I can find lots of references to the concept under names like: map
> tiles, map grids, spatial tiles, or just plain tiles/grids. That doesn't
> mean cartesian tiers isn't a better description and that if Lucene was the
> first to implement such a thing we wouldn't even be having this
> conversation. But the fact is, we're not the first and it appears to me
> like the majority of people out their use grid/tiles to describe this
> concept, for better or worse.
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