I agree with Shaun. My personal preference is for the message name to reflect the message data type as opposed to what the message is used for. The topic name can then tell us whether the message is being used for humidity or pressure. On Nov 13, 2012 2:24 AM, "Stephan Wirth" wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Chad Rockey wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm proposing a few new messages for sensor_msgs. These messages are > > intended to provide common, shareable data types for new low cost and > mobile > > sensing applications. > > > +1! > We defined similar Pressure/Humidity messages for our underwater robot > due to the lack of standard messages. > > Stephan > > -- > Stephan Wirth > Systems, Robotics and Vision Group > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > University of the Balearic Islands > http://srv.uib.es > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >