Create "Land For Rent" filter option for World Map
SarahKB7 Koskinen
I've never liked "For Sale" or "For Rent" sky art displayed on the World Map. I think it's an ugly, cheap-looking eyesore and stupidly hides the actual land beneath it from actual view of potential customers on the World Map, which seems like a counter-productive thing for land owners to do.
The World Map already has a "Land For Sale" filter built into the World Map, so there's no actual need for "For Sale" sky art signs to be rezzed inworld like they are. So "For Sale" sky art should be discouraged and stopped.
However, no such "For Rent" filter currently exists in the World Map. I think it's time for a "Land For Rent" filter to be added to to the World Map. Rental payment boxes owned by CasperVend (which is owned by Linden Lab now) rezzed into rentable parcels could potentially be linked into the World Map filter options.
Land owners who wish to advertise their land for rent, but who chose not to use CasperVend payment boxes, could benefit from a new Land Settings option which then displays their land as "Land For Rent" in the proposed World Map filter option.
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Qie Niangao
I'm all for this, but I'd suggest making an open API to the For Rent data that would populate the map, so parcel-owner scripts can manage the land rental.
(The suggestion to make CasperLet free and tightly integrated with SL is another option, but honestly, Casper
Vend
has been Lab-owned for years now and has shown zero progress towards the obvious integration with Marketplace. There's no reason to hold platform progress hostage to another Casper integration.)N
Nya Jules
I just see the following issue:
Land for Sale:
As a user who is looking for Land for Sale, I can access the World Map and enable the Land for Sale overlay. I can teleport to a Land for Sale location and it's very probable that this land will be for sale (unless it changed since last map update.)
Land for Rent:
As a user who is looking for Land for Rent, when I access the World Map and enable the Land for Rent overlay, when I teleport to a location then I don't know if this location will actually be available for rent. In many cases it will be rented out. It may feel like a gamble and it could become frustrating pretty quickly, especially in areas with a higher demand.
=> this may become a very bad user experience.
Here is my solution:
1) Make CasperLet free by integrating it tightly into SL
2) Connect the World Map to CasperLet
3) Make it impossible to manually change the rental status of the parcel since people would abuse that and always show their parcel as for rent just to lure people there and spam them with ads.
AlettaMondragon Resident
It would be great to have this feature, however not only this but a lot of other things regarding the world map. Right now it is a big mess, a patchwork of features, not to mention the weird, inefficient way the tiles update, which had to be rebuilt twice a few years ago to work at least the way it does. Which is not as great as it used to be before the tile updates crashed, twice. And it is unable to render PBR textures so only BP textures show on the map prints. (And of course the all kinds of blobs because sculpted and mesh objects are too complex for it to render their shapes at least somewhat accurately.)
The tile generation and the overlays are different of course, but the world map just needs a complete overhaul. As a minimum, not only a "for rent" option for parcels, but also a custom overlay where you could upload your own texture and use it as a map overlay instead of using sky sign objects in the air. This would make things very easy for everyone, whether it's a club, an airport, marina, store, etc, there would be no need for sky sign objects anymore.