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Need your help. We need a 1- or 2-word phrase that explains the following
concept. Hoping you can help me come up with candidates. Please reply off
list directly to me since I get the digest. Here's the deal:
Working in 3-D. Users can customize a globe by specifying different details
that will appear on the globe. For instance, one instance of the globe may
contain highways and lakes. Another instance may contain glaciers and
forrests. Yet another may contain both or neither of these. It's totally
user defined. Each of these must be defined as separate and distinct
<WhateverWordWeDecideOn>.
Caveats are:
* We can't call these layers because (1) we're not actually layering
features (2) we will be layering features within these globe instances to
determine the viewing order.
* We also can't call these instances, just in case users are confused into
thinking that the globe is a class and the individual features we apply are
instances of the globe class. I actually like the word instance but have
been vetoed by the developer. If there are no other, better choices, I
might be able to convince him.
* We can't call these views, because we already have a preponderance of
features that use the word view --including view points, view paths, viewer
position and viewer direction, view from above, view from North, etc. Way
too many....
