use a different file naming system

[marwahaha]

@rbavery and I taught a workshop with this lesson in it this week.

The most frequent learner complaint was about the filenames. I think they found them strange and cryptic (with acronyms like DTM), too similar (DSM vs DTM), but perhaps too long (DTM_hill_HARV_df).

I think we would prefer to see more "human-friendly" names, like surface_HARV and terrain_HARV_df.

What do you all think?

[jsta]

Makes sense to me but I'm less familiar with conventions for this type of data. Is it useful for people to know the DTM and DSM acronyms?

[dcarver1]

I think the acronyms (DSM and DTM) would work just fine if you included the top half of the image in lesson 3 within the introduction section. By providing a clear visualization of what these datasets are, individuals who have not worked with them can find meaning to the three letters.

I do think that the filenames/object names could be improved by removing HARV. The site acronym is inherent in the file path, and aside from US boundaries, all the data comes from a single-site location. It just seems a little redundant and leads to quite a bit more characters over the course of the lesson.