[Geotools-devel] Naming Standards for Projection parameters?

[Bryce L N. <bno...@fs...>]

Hi.

Does anyone know if there are naming standards for "common" projection
parameters (like "semi-major", "semi-minor", etc.)?  I'm looking for
something on the order of a set of "public static final String"(s) which
can be used by plugins (GeoTiff) and projection implementations (Mercator).
Ideally, these would be in GeoAPI rather than Geotools.  I've looked, but
I'm not finding.  (My wife would not be surprised.)

Looking at the import list on my GeoTiff plugin, I have imported the
FactoryFinder from Geotools and the rest of the functionality is built
around the GeoAPI interfaces.  However, this is a deceptive metric of
isolation if there are no naming standards for parameters.  I am very much
tied to the Geotools way of naming parameters.  Worse, I don't think
there's anything keeping future implementations of projections inside
Geotools from deciding to name a parameter semiMajor or SemiMajor or even
S3m1Maj0r.  The current ones are probably all the same because Martin wrote
them all.

However, I'm optimistic that I just missed the naming standards and all is
well. :)

Bryce