Peter Miller <peter.mil...@itoworld.com> writes: >> Would you consider the GPL licence? >> >> Name ideas: >> >> "Tora"- The Open Routing Algorithm? >> >> "Aora"- Andrew's...... >> >> What's it written in, maybe that could help with the name....PyOra, >> for example?
> A name... Who is this project aimed at? You need to answer that one > before choosing the name. If is a bunch of clever back-end code that > can be used by anyone wanting to put a journey planner together then > you need a name that works for techies, otherwise you have the much > harder task of building a pubic facing brand which will probably need > marketing and other stuff to make it work. > > Assuming you are producing something for the techie community then it > needs to be memorable and relatively unique. Avoid a phrase that just > says what is is because there are going to be too many of those! If > the project is good and gets used then the name will become well known > so the most important thing for a techie project is that it is good. > It is also important to build a community that can engage with it, so > do provide a way for people to engage with the project - a wiki page > for describing the project and for feedback and suggestions seems to > work well and of course making it open source. Is also takes a lot of > work. To answer the questions posed here: Yes, it would be GPLv2 (or above). [Perhaps GPLv3 would be better because one of the new concepts in that is software as a service - i.e. the use of GPL software through a webpage.] I don't want to start a discussion on that here though. It is written in C for Linux. Currently the web pages use JavaScript and perl scripts; I should probably include them in the release. I never really plan who my software is aimed at. "It's useful for me" is my normal motivation. I am not planning to go into competition with Google maps by providing a web service. Also I don't think that it is really a TomTom competitor in the embedded domain. The software will be for techies and the existing web page will remain as a demonstration of what it can do. I am not new to releasing software[1] but I haven't crowdsourced a name before. Normally I haven't had a problem with thinking of one; in this case I didn't really bother I just wanted to get it visible to start with. A wiki page? Perhaps just a mailing list to start with. Give me a couple of weeks and the code will be available. For your part make sure that you tag all the highways you edit with routing software in mind. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop a...@gedanken.demon.co.uk [1] http://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
