Revisiting Second Life Mapping Projects :: Landmarker is New World Notes Link of the Week

Last month I posted "A Google Maps Walking Tour of Second Life?" and "Imagining Ga9gle Maps + Flickzillr", wondering out loud about the possibilities for interactive, user annotated maps of Second Life accessible through the wider Web.

Bino Arbuckle of SL Maps was kind enough to get in touch and post links to a few very interesting (if, as he noted, not all updated) mapping projects:

•Cartifex (This one is remarkable... Patrick Rutledge was able to get SL data into 3DS MAX!?... See this post about mapping real world cities in 3D and 4D... For the present, is this how to get your build data out of SL and into professional 3D software for production or further modification?)
•Second Life Servers (empty... but lists some intentions)
•Rathe Underthorn's Land Baron Listing (click on "Land Barons" to see the real estate map)

He also mentioned a project called Landmarker, which could be heating up as it is right now one of the links of the week on New World Notes. They're calling it a "del.icio.us for Second Life" that lets you tag locations in SL with Flickr and Snapzilla pics. Congratulations and good luck to the Landmarker team: Epitaxial Playfair, Arito Cotton, and Cienna Rand! I'd love to hear some kind of vision statement from you guys on how you think Landmarker could develop over time with the proper participation and support.

Comments

[Timothy Moenk/Lyre Calliope]

Combined with RSS, Landmarker could be the beginning of a trend towards Second Life integrating with the web more closely via Firefox's Live Bookmarks option. This is a direction I'd personally like to see.

Teleporting through a virtual world via Firefox... Yum.

Applying folksonomies to Second Life will make it infinitally easier to navigate through the rapidly expanding world as time goes on; provided enough people pick up on tagging. Hopefully enough people will find Landmarker personally useful enough so that aggragate value is able to emerge.

[Bino Arbuckle]

I know Ice doesn't link these directly from SecondLifeServers, but you can check out:

http://www.secondlifeservers.com/map.php which is a current map of the grid

and

http://www.secondlifeservers.com/thermal.php which is a time-based mapping. Currently shows the last time the sim was checked on by the SLS system.

I heard that Reuben Linden is working on new maps for the SL website, he had mentioned it in his blog (http://reuben.typepad.com) regarding complex data visualization.

This in turn spurred me on to try out generating some flash visualizations via PHP of my SLMaps data. You can check them out streaming in-world at my house near Boardman 200,185.