Improvements to mapping and upgrade to SLurl.com

The fact that developers can now access map images directly is one of best improvements in my opinion. There are applications where having a map image in-world is useful too, and this has required 3rd party services to accomplish. Are there any plans, or would LL ever consider, adding a way to access map images as textures in-world?

Does anyone know why SLURLs don't work for me in Firefox 3??

I always get the message "Firefox can't find the file at secondlife://REGION/xx/xx/xx". It won't launch the viewer.

Even an uninstall / reinstall doesn't fix it. There is nothing in the JIRA or anywhere in my research that mentions this problem. (Windows XP)

as of this writing, the map tiles served from amazon s3 are pretty far out of date - much longer than 2 days ago.

Reacher: James mentioned earlier - we haven't deployed the code yet that will remove sims that are taken down or moved, so there are some in here right now that aren't actually up. We hope to have that running next week.

Nice, work. The old stuff was kinda silly.

Now, step two!

Update our sim hardware so that we can actually do things once we click the pretty map pictures and arrive in world

What will the map tile image update frequency be once all this is done?
Just because it can run in x days doesn't mean it will. Or will it just run in an endless loop every few days?

One thing I'd like to see on the SLurl website is a region search function. It shouldn't be too hard to do, I think.

Type in a region name in a text box, and POW...the focus goes to the region as center of the map. Much like the in world region search is now.

Thanks for all you do.

Seconded.

Over the last few months I have really had nothing nice to say about LL & SL in general. I'm sure we have heard it all before so I will spare you a repeat.

That being said I have to say that I am impressed, not only was a actual problem that has been around for some time been addressed. But it was done, quickly, quietly, and its actually working as described. Philip my hat is off to you sir, You rolled up your sleeves and got the job done. you listened to your customers needs and you got in there and did something about it....

I only hope that this is a sign of good things to come.... You have been sorely missed when you stepped down from the helm, I think the crew needs some of your guidance, the passages are starting to jump ship.... we can only put up with shuffleboard for just so long before we notice the ship breaking up around us. (Sorry I live in an ocean sim, forgive the maritime referances). Keep up the good work sir

I just wanted to jump in on your changed to SLURL.com... Gridaverse.com or GVURL.com already does everything this does, and does exactly what they have said it will do in the future. Maybe you should buy them as well... lol

On top of that, you can search land for sale on the mainland, organize your favorites, search for sims, and much more.

http://Gridaverse.com

It looks very good. Can't wait to see it in the viewer.

I've been using the new API here: http://ninjaland.net/tools/sl-map/

There are two problems I'm running into. 1) Markersare not scaling properly as I zoom in and out and b) when you scroll left and right in a fully zoomed out map there's this weird effect where the markers are repeated. to the left and right one full map size away.

Any possibility you could help me find what I'm doing wrong or is it a general problem?

The key point is that all the textures should be available in world via UUIDs so that we can display them on prims. If you move to a totally web based system that won't be possible anymore.

yeah i did see that, but even region tiles that haven't been taken down or moved are more out of date in the amazon version. compare the following:

http://secondlife.com/apps/mapapi/grid/map_image/720-100-1-0.jpg
http://map.secondlife.com.s3.amazonaws.com/1/00720/01179/map-1-720-1179-objects.jpg

The latter hasn't looked like this for couple weeks.

Superb!!

I'm don't know of anyone who was wondering that, but I suppose it's interesting to see that you've been fiddling while Rome has been burning.

Btw, on my earlier ( illegal? ) thread about bot farms ( hijacked and sarcasted by name called .hill ...kins - who else ) i can all inform you that a lot of volunteers came to me to help to clean them up.
That is, they report them to LL... they have to clean them up eventually.

The list of real reports ( forget the large phony listing by a man who claims he wants to marry me - chuckles - ) is flabbergasting in such short notice.

You said: "Don't mind the forum, you won a lot of hearts".
Persintancy, percistancy... my father used to say !
( Didn't all believe what he said, but this one deserves my credit lol )

Guys you all need the best group hug ever in SL

Philip or M, it would be most lovely if you keep your staff from surfing the beaches lil bit right now and help us out on this mammoth task

Phil, you never ending meany sarcastic

Philip deserved a brake... Rome can be rebuild !
Ok now we certainly don't get married

Btw, word goes you have a beautiful body, and one of the parts are your special hands they say. Please don't polish them too much, cause we have to keep them dirty to rebuild this town

Ohh, about those "ambarrasing" Threads.. naaah don't delete them; they are a tribute to certain mind sets. We all know where to find those now

My superior bar where has to minimize to maximize to close and the inferior bar with clock sound etc they disappeared, I already uninstalled and I installed program several times and the image continues stretched, and with problems to open. . . could they aid me as reverting that?

Wow, the new map is really great!

Will the inworld map also be improved one day? At the moment it's extremely slow - no matter if I zoom in or out.

Will map tiles be available inworld for use with LSL??

it paginates this with problems. . . stretched out too much. . . without the bars superior and inferior. . . the bar inferior windows with contole of sound clock and another paginate I don't get to access and to only close using alt f4 because there is not more the superior bar

Pffooo you are very right, inworld map is painfully slow.

What i do, turing off Basic Shaders ( windlight ), then pointing my view up to an empty sky ( also without clouds ) so that the viewer doesn't need prio to rendering textures and all priority goes to the rendering of the map.
Or you can disable a bunch of rendering types for a moment in the Advanced Menu, just to get the map render prio higher.
Not the greatest solutions, but it sure speeds a lot up in my case

Btw, don't know what OS you are using and which viewer.
1.21 and 1.22 RC's are known no be much slower rendering ( at least with XP for many, VWR-8503 in the Jira ).
I went back to 1.20 also which is faster, however i still use that trick as i said above.

But in the end, we do a need a quicker map / quicker rendering overall i guess. Word goes they are working on it.

it paginates this with problems. . . stretched out too much. . . without the bars superior and inferior. . . the bar inferior windows with contole of sound clock and another paginate I don't get to access and to only close using alt f4 because there is not more the superior bar

I'm not sure on the reasons why this is happening exactly, but I can tell you exactly why Firefox is giving you that error:

You're using the in-world SLurl (there are different versions, some are global meaning they're formulated for your web browser, some are local that only work within SL), but it's being launched in your browser as a global SLurl. Without http thrown in at the beginning of the address, pointing to a www website (for example ), it sees an address starting with secondlife: and immediately looks on your local hard drive for it. That's not a valid address for any content stored on your local hard drive.

So the solution would be to make it stop launching your external browser to handle these addresses as they're not website addresses. How to make it stop launching it though, I'm not sure on right now.

Please. . . if knows as reverting that it informs me. . . . or to who should ask aid. . . . tks
knows as reverting that it informs me. . . . or to who should ask aid. . . . tks