[sldev] Open development of the Webmap API

[Harold Brown]

Re-Posting this to the dev list as I didn't on initial reply

I re-did most of the new MapAPI interface using OpenLayers
(http://openlayers.org/)  Example 1. demo here:
http://www.rpgstats.com/OpenLayer/example1.html

MapMarkers don't work, but that's mostly due to my not having much
experiance with how the Google MapAPI works and trying to translate
that to a different mapping system.

In regards to the MapAPI documentation on the wiki.  I was the one who
ported it over and added the instructions for the google Map API
interface.  So no I didn't document everything as the root calls
didn't need to be documented for the MapAPI to be used as intended.

As for getting information back in blocks:

http://secondlife.com/app/voicemap/index.php?var=name&x=1000&y=1000&blocksize=10

The above is a JSON query that will return 32 regions starting at
1000,10000.  The information returned is X and Y co-ordinate, Region
Name, and if it is capable of voice (all regions should return true
now I believe).

On Jan 16, 2008 4:14 PM, SignpostMarv Martin <me at signpostmarv.name> wrote:
> The Webmap API provided by Linden Lab is almost non-existant.
>
> While the wiki page documents how to use the google maps wrapper it
> doesn't cover the pure API calls, of which there are only two:
> 1) Finding the name of a region at given co-ordinates
> 2) Finding the co-ordinates of a given region
>
> Bar doing some work with libSL, there is currently no "official" way to
> access this or related data in batch, which is why it'll be taking me
> about 3 weeks to scan an area covering 26.5 million acres of virtual
> land for the existence of Second Life regions.
>