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.
