RE: [PEAR-DEV] services_openstreetmap and a new geo category

Something like "tags" would be more appropriate and flexible IMO. In this case, tags could be "Geo" (for obvious reasons), "Maps" (not everything "Geo" is a map - e.g. country finder for an IP would fit geo, but not maps), "Earth" (given that future packages may map the surface of the moon or other planets), etc. Categories should clarify the technical aspect, whereas the tags would reflect the usage aspect. Given the above, the current categorization seems fine. -----Original Message----- From: klimpong@gmail.com [mailto:klimpong@gmail.com] On Behalf Of till Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 10:17 PM To: Christian Weiske Cc: pear-dev@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] services_openstreetmap and a new geo category On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Christian Weiske <cweiske@cweiske.de> wrote: > Hello Ken, > > >> Services_openstreetmap is now through the PEPR process >> http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=667. >> As I think it would be more appropriate for it to be in a new Geo >> category that I'd mentioned during the PEPR process I was wondering >> what the next step would be? > > I'm not so sure we should do that. If you made a generic mapping > package that abstracted from OSM, Google and Bing, then this would be > a fine fit for Geo. But since it interfaces the service only, it > should > - in my eyes - stay in the service category. I think that since this is a service wrapper, it should be Services_* regardless. Same for KML - technically it's for "File Formats". Maybe we could have more categories - e.g. for secondary topics (such as Geo) and to increase findability (I just made this up). >> Robert McLeod's create_kml proposal ( >> http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=616 ) >> would also >> be a good fit for this category. Potentially the Map_Projection >> proposal, if it comes to completion, could fit into this category >> too. So this new geo category wouldn't be just a vanity category with >> just one package inside it. > Yep, those two would fit in there fine. > >> The project is hosted on github and I know I can just rename the >> repository from Services_Openstreetmap to Geo_OpenStreetMap - but the >> simplest approach isn't always necessarily the best. Are there any >> PEAR RFCs for this scenario? > No that I know of. Till -- PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php