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| Oct 26, 2013 at 5:12 | history | edited | Martin F | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
referring to good comments
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| Oct 26, 2013 at 5:06 | comment | added | Martin F | @blah238 (and whuber) You're right about "nodal" being restricted to networks (and thus having meaning similar to "hub"). I was conflating it with another geographic term "nucleated", which roughly means "compact" -- another regional adjective! :-) | |
| Oct 26, 2013 at 4:43 | comment | added | Martin F | @whuber "k-cell" terminology may have come from mathematics but has been used in GIS/cartography since at least the early 1980s (see mapcontext.com/autocarto/proceedings/auto-carto-9/pdf/…, eg) | |
| Aug 28, 2013 at 18:41 | comment | added | whuber | "Pointal" is not an English word. "Nodal" has a meaning narrower than "point," because it implies a context in which that point is embedded in a network. The "k-cell" terminology comes from simplicial homology theory and therefore also is narrower in meaning and scope. | |
| Aug 28, 2013 at 18:11 | comment | added | Martin F | I know "nodes" are in common use in networks/graphs, but that being the argument against its use here is, I think, weaker than the argument against "punctual" being used out of its usual context. [I hope my reasoning/explanation isn't too twisted ;-)] | |
| Aug 28, 2013 at 1:31 | comment | added | blah238 | I think nodal would be good in the context of a graph or topology, but otherwise it seems punctual is the "most correct" form of the term. I am not sure why certain geospatial libraries adopted the "puntal" form. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 23:53 | history | answered | Martin F | CC BY-SA 3.0 |