[sldev] Snowglobe on OpenSim grids

Suzy Deffeyes suzyque at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 16:30:10 PST 2009


If the code defaults to the existing hardcoded amazon behavior if a  
cap to map tiles is not returned, then it doesn't require a LL  
protocol change.

Suzy/Pixel



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On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Aleric Inglewood  
<aleric.inglewood at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems to me we have consensus on the need to add a new capability  
> for this,
> except from Linden Lab? To quote myself from 2 Dec::
>
> I regret it that we don't have a good communication link with ALL LL  
> developers,
> only with the handful that is working on snowglobe, or maybe I'm  
> just missing
> an overview. Is there anyone here who could say: Ok, lets change the
> server-client protocol?
>
> That question was never answered... Merov?
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Lisa Denia <eiffel56 at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Carlo Wood wrote:
>>> Yes, but in order to allow opensim to ever support this,
>>> snowglobe should ASAP implement a capability to get the URL.
>>
>>> Then, since opensim will report it doesn't have that capability,
>>> we can also fall back to the old way of displaying map tiles.
>>
>> Sounds like a very good idea to me.
>>
>> Dahlia wrote:
>>> that may require the capability to also exist on the SL grids.
>>
>> Of course. I don't know much about Linden Lab's internal server  
>> software
>> releasy cycles, but is that a problem?
>> Snowglobe is still something "experimental" as far as I know. Since
>> introducing that capability doesn't break anything for Snowglobe  
>> users(the map
>> could load a bit slower maybe), it can safely be added at the next  
>> regular
>> server update. Snowglobe could even force HTTP map tiles when it  
>> detects that
>> it's connected to Linden Lab's grid(maybe a bit dirty :)).
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