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" <stephan.wirth@uib.es> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Chad Rockey <chadrockey@gmail.com> 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

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Stephan Wirth
Systems, Robotics and Vision Group
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of the Balearic Islands
http://srv.uib.es
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