On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:51 PM, patrick o'leary wrote: > So Grant here's the deal behind the name. > Cartesian because it's a simple x.y coordinate system > Tier because there are multiple tiers, levels of resolution. > > If you look at it closer: > - To programmers there's a quadtree implementation > - To web users who use maps these are grids / tiles. > - To GIS experts this is a form of multi-resolution raster-ing. > - To astrophysicists these are tiers. > - To the MS folks I've talked to they have quad something or other. > - To math folks Cartesian levels makes sense. > > Can't make all the people happy all the time,
Right, but as far as I can tell (and I've only done, say an hour of research), I can't find anyone who calls them Cartesian Tiers other than us. Personally, I think web users are the largest group (after all, aren't we all web users?) out there and therefore will be the most familiar with either grid or tile. FWIW, I have tentatively called the Solr FieldType to support this "SpatialTileField" as in it represents a tile in the spatial sense. I'd be fine with SpatialGridField as well (GridField seems a bit too generic).
