Name Ideas
Edit: official voting now happening here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/34
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!
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
Collective Maps
Shared Maps
Collab 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!
Delta Maps (like the fork in the river)
It's not bad, but
Lief Maps
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
Maps 'r Us
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
CoCoMaps (community + collaboration)
Unfortunately there seems to be existing software with this name.
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
Origami Maps
Mappa
Unfortunately there seems to be a number of existing software with this name.
Admittedly I only did a 30 second search and got the aforementioned Japanese company and something to do with the UK government. I thought it was probably too good to be true.
It's a great name. A lot of people seem to agree 😄
Like Cuppa for a cup of tea
Mappa is also italian for map. People of saints, poets and navigators, says the saying
Edited the original comment to comply with the rules. Cut 'n' paste of reasoning:
It's the Latin word for map, at least according to Google, and there doesn't appear to be any similar entities using the name, just a Japanese animation studio.
It also rolls nicely off the tongue. "Have you checked on Mappa?"
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.
Common Maps
In keeping with the "organic" theme, my submission is:
Free Range Maps
Voting for names is now open:
https://codeberg.org/comaps/Governance/issues/34
MOSS / Moss Maps (like FOSS but natural)
Just Moss
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.
Open Planet
Unfortunately there seems to be existing software / websites with this name.
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]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cartographers
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).
What's the French word for cartographer?
Same as English essentially, cartographe.
Moo Maps
Based on @[email protected] 's great suggestion, I thought of the slogan "Grass-fed, free-range, organic, and community-powered maps". And of course a cow for a mascot.
Maybe Green Map with an even greater focus on the durability of the app?
@CubeOfCheese YaMap (Yet Another Map App)
Map Again
😅
Periq(uito)Maps
My first instinct is "Here We Go Again" but I think there's an existing map company that would take exception to that.
@CubeOfCheese
I'm not sure what you mean by that
@CubeOfCheese
The first part is a reference to my general feeling of deja vu.
The second is a reference to these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here/_WeGo
Oh that's actually really funny
Organic Maps was born as a fork of Maps.Me, because the owner/developer went closed source. And the same thing is happening again, forking the same thing for a similar reason again...
Ren Maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_(philosophy)
FroMap
Nonorganic Maps?
I keed, I keed.
Fluid Maps
Less Maps
Aero Maps
Navigram
Mapverse
Mappin
MapX
FOSS Maps
Mapp
this one sounds good. it's short and memorable
Haha when I got the notification email I thought you meant that "merde" as an app name was good, short, and memorable 😂
Kingfisher Maps
Edit: typo
After the migratory bird the woodland kingfisher. Bonus mascot! I've searched and didn't find a name clash with another website/software.
Local Atlas?
Community Maps (spelled out)
Unfortunately there seems to be existing software / websites with this name.
Orgasmic Maps
Social Street MapsI feel like it should be something that rolls off the tongue. Something easy to search and not awkward to recommend irl. Sucks because Organic Maps was pretty good in both those cases
OpenStreetMap is the registered trademark of OSM Foundation, and they ask to please don't use mixed and confusing names like this for related projects. From the Trademark Policy:
While they usually allow the use for open projects, it would be just easier to respect the request of the Foundation.
Some of these are existing, can you split out your favorites into top-level comments and upvote those that already exist?
In Vivo Maps
The one that lives within or is in the living. It's alive in all of us (the community) and the other way around: our contributions live within the app and OSM. Also, its supposed to be the fork that lives on. I think this would be a subtle nudge without carrying a scarred name like phoenix/revival with the project forever.
Plaid Maps
Reasoning:
Plaid patterns kinda look like a city street grid.
Plaid clothing/flannels is often worn by and associated with people who would buy organic, or are 'earthy' (see: Vermont Flannel)
This interesting thread.
Potential cons:
Could be confused with the Plaid Bank Linking App.
I like this a lot. My only fear is that Fintech suing the project. Not that it would have merit - completely different industries, after all - but just proving that could kill the project or force another name change.
as a non-native english speaker, I have never heard the word Plaid before XD also hard to write
plan b
Comdrima
For some reason It sounds like some obscure linux distro from the 90s
Edited my top level comment as per rules ill add my reasoning separately:
Just throwing my idea out here, please don't roast me alive. I really like comaps, but I understand that was already in use somewhere?
may seem random, but all the cool options were already in the matrix chat like ROAM, Cosmos, etc
Community Driven Maps
Edit: I can't search the matrix chat but I hope the other people who also suggested really cool names pitch in here!
Sage Map
Local Maps
Natural Maps
Crowd Maps
Fossify Maps 😁😎
RootMaps
Roam / ROAM / Roam Maps / Roam Atlas / Roam App
There is a Roam App and a company called Atlas Roam, so those are out.
Alchemaps
Our Map
Open Atlas
Sadly this is also already in use (the positive news is that it's also a FLOSS project!).
openatlas.eu
Never Lost
Maps Forever
Map App
People's Map