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11.16.08A Sense of Place: Mapping in Second Life and Virtual WorldsI often regret that I wasn't around for the days of telehubs and a contained land mass: Second Life is too vast now, teleports make it too easy to bounce around, and private islands mean that the majority of the Grid isn't a continuous space. Over on the OpenSim grids, you get a sense of place: it's still small enough to wander around and meet all your neighbours. The map of SL isn't much of a map really. Show it to a cartographer and they'd scorn it: it's an information dashboard, maybe, showing land for sale or green dots, but ...
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