I like this name: it's cute, short and memorable. I also like that 'co-' can have multiple meanings (cooperation, coexisting, community, carbon monoxyde).

[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CyberTailor@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CubeOfCheese@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] metehan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Males me think of Jacques Cartier whose surname sounds like Cartes (French for map).

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's the French word for cartographer?

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Same as English essentially, cartographe.