HydroCS Wiki

Hydrologic Computational Science Lab Wiki

User Tools

Site Tools


file_naming_conventions

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision
Next revision
Previous revision
file_naming_conventions [2026-05-31 05:14 pm] hchofile_naming_conventions [2026-05-31 06:21 pm] (current) – [Technical identifiers] hcho
Line 8: Line 8:
   * Use only lowercase letters (a-z), digits (0-9), hyphens (-), and underscores (_).   * Use only lowercase letters (a-z), digits (0-9), hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
   * Avoid spaces and other special characters.   * Avoid spaces and other special characters.
-  * Use **hyphens (-)** for named entities intended primarily for human reading.+  * Use **hyphens (-)** for named entities intended primarily for human reading and reference.
   * Use **underscores (_)** for technical identifiers intended primarily for software, programming languages, databases, GIS, and other computational environments.   * Use **underscores (_)** for technical identifiers intended primarily for software, programming languages, databases, GIS, and other computational environments.
  
Line 73: Line 73:
   grid_utils.h   grid_utils.h
  
-===== Technical identifiers =====+===== GIS datasets and technical identifiers =====
  
-Technical identifiers use **underscores** to separate words. This ensures compatibility with databases, GIS layers, raster algebra, and similar computational environments.+GIS datasets and technical identifiers use **underscores** to separate words. This ensures compatibility with GIS layers, raster algebra, databases, and similar computational environments.
  
 Examples: Examples:
  
   gcn10_amc_i.tif   gcn10_amc_i.tif
 +  gcn10_amc_ii.tif
   nm_hydro_basins.gpkg   nm_hydro_basins.gpkg
 +  stream_order.parquet
  
 ===== Generated files ===== ===== Generated files =====
file_naming_conventions.1780269294.txt.gz · Last modified: by hcho

Donate Powered by PHP Valid HTML5 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki