The tags geographics and geography are often used together, but inconsistently so, yet with overlapping concerns, e.g. a "GeoGraphics
" question
PlotMarkers in GeoListPlot do not work
vs. a "Geography
" question
upper limit with PlotStyle
in GeoListPlot
in v10.1
The boundary between the two is often fuzzy, but I believe a clear boundary can be created by strictly having only geographic plotting in geographics and anything else geography related (entities, GeoDistance
, etc.) go in geography. Obviously, there is still quite a bit of overlap, but I think this is a reasonable distinction and the tag descriptions should be updated. Agreed? However, this brings up other questions.
- Is geographics distinct enough from graphics to warrant a separate tag? (I believe so, but I prefer consensus.)
- Where do the geoplots (
GeoListPlot
,GeoHistogram
, etc.) go: plotting,geoplotting, or geographics?
GeoGraphics
, + plotting for the rest and other appropriate combinations for other cases, like curated-data or filtering – Kuba♦ Mar 21 '17 at 13:41Graphics3D
was considered separate enough to warrant its own tag, and in general, I believeGeoGraphics
warrants the same. But, I'm not against merging it with graphics, nor am I particularly for it. – rcollyer Mar 21 '17 at 14:39GeoDistance
,GeoArea
, etc. as merging them with curated-data is not a great fit. Thinking about it, adding geographics as a synonym for graphics is not unreasonable, and shunting the geoplotting functions into plotting works well enough for me. – rcollyer Mar 21 '17 at 14:45