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westnordost / osmapi

Java client for the OSM API 0.6
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Name conflict with already existing project? #1

Closed stephan75 closed 8 years ago

stephan75 commented 8 years ago

Hello Westnordost,

are you aware that there is already a project listet in the OSM wiki at

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmapi ?

It seems to be a different and older project then yours, or am I wrong?

When renaming is a better way, maybe you can add a "J" letter in your project name? ;-)

westnordost commented 8 years ago

Hi Stephan

Yes, I am aware of it. The wiki article is about a Python library that gets map data via the Osm Api 0.6, this project is a Java library.

Since it is for two different languages, I do not see that much of a conflict there. If someone wants to write a wiki article in the OSM wiki, then the article could be http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmapi_(Java) or something. The problem with "josmapi" is that the name "JOSM" is already associated in the minds of everyone who does anything with OSM with the popular editor. So the first thing I think of when reading that is that it must have something to do with JOSM. With a Java project called "osmapi" it is immediately clear from the name what it is for, in my opinion.

stephan75 commented 8 years ago

ok ... so we don't need looking for naming alternatives like osmjapi or similar ...

then I will close this issue.