Comments on: A Sense of Place: Mapping in Second Life and Virtual Worlds

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » The Virtual, Really

Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » The Virtual, Really — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:08:16 +0000

[...] be easily imported into Second Life or OpenSim. Not that they aren’t already – I’ve blogged previously about importing real world models and cityscapes into Second Life, but I wonder if we’re just [...]

By: Reading Radar » World Mapped to World

Reading Radar » World Mapped to World — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:23:25 +0000

[...] now this is cool. Dusan Writer points out the horribly named Viwogeo, from a link provided by Pais [...]

By: Dusan

Dusan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:50:01 +0000

Thanks JeanRicard: I meant to point GVURL out, but I couldn't remember what it was called! I blogged about it previously here.

By: JeanRicard Broek

JeanRicard Broek — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:54:01 +0000

Dusan;

Dig a little deeper into Viwogeo and you will find Skidz Partz and a new map application for the Second Life Grid, (not to be confused with other unidentified, unpublished Linden Lab Grid(s)).

The Second Life Map & Search features used inSL and the Second Life web site, including the auction pages, is just terrible and increasingly worthless.

I question, considering all of Rosedale’s rhetoric and the competing technologies out there, Google Earth, Google Maps and Microsoft’s versions, why Linden lab has neglected, maybe very deliberately, these primary and valuable discovery and navigation tools.

Well it looks like someone in the inSL resident community just may call the Lab’s bluff and trump the Lindens at their own game.

Go to these links and take a look:

http://gvurl.com/

http://gvurl.com/About.aspx

Open the map, Zoom out, and then use the left side search tab. OMG!! Fast, more current then the inSL LL version. and easier to use. Yes their SL grid map graphics are now a bit primitive but I am sure will get better. Just think what they can do with it.

I think this is fantastic, since this will really step on the Lab’s toes.

By: Pais Kidd

Pais Kidd — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:29:48 +0000

Ack… so much information! I especially enjoyed the last video you linked from Jon Brouchard. I think he must have been giving this kind of talk many times because it is a refined and elegant collection of key aspects of SL as a collaborative 3D environment from the architectural perspective. In my post that you linked, I had a thought about the exploration of space without an avatar in google earth, and how I was a bit lost without that forcing function of perspective (namely location and scale).
You (Dusan) covered a lot more ground, including the flow of geographic data, and it reminded me of one of the GIS killer app aspects of Earth was how it allowed the seaming effortless and seamless convergence of so many sources of geographical data. This was no small thing. I hope in the future we have a SL world that does the same kind of data flows.