[sldev] More ideas for NAV - was: Re: SLDev Digest, Vol 18, Issue 32

[Felix Duesenburg]

Felix Duesenburg wrote:
> laurent cezanne wrote:
>> about LM navigation: Is there a way to show a LM has changed  like a 
>> sim owner change or coordonate ?
>>
>>
> 
> Great point! No, currently not. When taking a landmark, you only 
> conserve a piece of information from that time which afterwards has no 
> more connection with its source. Having a way to poll for an update 
> would constitute a significant improvement in the value of landmarks.
> 
> This would be a great item for the NAV project, if someone with the 
> permission to post there felt inclined to include it. Also, it involves 
> doing something on the server side, so it's not something that the OS 
> crowd currently could take up. 

...

Maybe I spoke too quickly... why could we not? It should be possible to 
do a search for the geocoordinates of a landmark and retrieve current 
information about its owner, name, even parcel content when I look at 
how the places search recently works. This could be run as a background 
task when inventory is refreshed. Only thing, I'm not sure what that 
would do to the database load if it was a standard feature...

Another idea for NAV: The landmark preview floater could include all the 
information that you find with the places search. Maybe vendors would 
like the idea that this way the list of objects for sale at that 
location would be visible to the client just by a double click. Does 
that make sense?

Felix