Re: [ros-users] sensor_msgs Low Cost/Android review

Please disregard my previous email. I replied at an incorrect part of this
email thread.

Sorry.

Copied my reply below:

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 7:09 AM, "Edwards, Shaun M." <sedwards@swri.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> I'm going to throw this out there for discussion since I have struggled
> with it myself. Do we really need message types for simple analog values,
> such as humidity or pressure. Is it enough to just have an analog message
> (I believe there is one already) with an appropriate topic name. The main
> reason for my dilemma is that you can write some pretty generic nodes, say
> filtering for example, that can work on any analog value. If we create
> special messages for each type of analog value, then a generic node becomes
> more difficult. Thoughts?
>
> Shaun Edwards
> Senior Research Engineer
> Manufacturing System Department
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org [mailto:
> ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org] On Behalf Of Stephan Wirth
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:24 AM
> To: User discussions
> Subject: Re: [ros-users] sensor_msgs Low Cost/Android review
>
> 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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