Land & Public Works

From 55:00 - https://youtu.be/VjLtFOW12Fs?t=3295 Please bring back LindenWorld into the SL grid, or build an exact replica of it! It would be a great educational and historic place for all Residents to learn about Linden Lab and Second Life's prototype virtual world. It could also act as a nostalgic place for the earliest Residents and Lindens to have reunions and meetings together. LindenWorld could be placed in the Beta "Aditi" grid at the 1000,1000 grid coordinates where Da Boom should be, but isn't because there are no duplicate "San Francisco" regions in the Beta grid! I would prefer this Beta grid option as I love the idea of the two virtual worlds running at the same time in the same space, but in two parallel grids in alternative universes. I will presume that LindenWorld's "nine regions" were arranged as a 3x3 grid, as I've never seen or found an actual map of LindenWorld. This 3x3 arrangement nicely coincides with the arrangement of nine of the sixteen "San Francisco" regions of the Main grid. On the attached map (below), I've pasted these "nine regions" of LindenWorld into the Beta Grid map where the missing and corresponding "San Francisco" regions of the main grid ought to be. As you will notice, their positions are close to the corresponding Dore, Ahern, Morris and Bonafacio cluster of the Beta grid too. Another alternative location idea suggestion would be to place the "nine regions" of LindenWorld into the Main grid at it's Teen SL continent (aka "Sharp"), filling in some of the vacant spaces where the "missing" regions of the 16 original "San Francisco" regions should be, but aren't.

While Bellisseria is a very easy destination and departure point for the sailing communities, it isn't one for those who prefer to drive wheeled vehicles across land. Bellisseria does not have a single solitary road or rail connection with the surrounding mainland and is impossible to drive into, or drive out from. There are literally no bridges and no tunnels between Bellisseria and the Mainland. None. Nil. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Bellisseria's car-owning residents cannot drive across to the mainland to visit shops, bars, clubs or other tourist destinations usually found on the mainland. Bellisserians might purchase additional mainland parcels to start their own businesses or create second homes, if they could reach the Mainland. The Mainland would benefit from having physical road and rail links with Bellisseria too, with increased road and rail traffic from Bellisseria. Please connect the roads and railways of Bellisseria with the surrounding Mainland using some strategically placed new road and rail bridges, or tunnels too.

The original Linden Homes continents (aka Nascera continents) are planned to be removed from the Second Life grid. Their Residents have been urged by LL to relocate to newer Bellisseria Linden Homes regions. If the Residents can be relocated, why not recycle and relocate the old Nascera regions as well? There are plenty of areas in both Mainland and Bellisseria that could benefit enormously from having additional "new" recycled regions added to them to improve or complete them. For example, 13 of Nascera's regions could be used to create a water and air transport corridor between Gaeta I and Corsica continents. Sansara could have it's roads extended into Bay City. Newbrooke theme in Bellisseria has a massive "hole" void inside it, as well as a missing northwest coastline. Bellisseria themes Ranch, Mediterranean and Sakura all lack completed land and coastline areas. Jeogeot continent could have a full perimeter of protected inshore coastline regions added to it, as could Sansara, Heterocera and Satori too. Unfinished continents such as Gaeta I and Zindra could both be finally completed to their original intended plan by reusing Nascera's regions. I propose that Nascera continent regions should not simply be deleted. Some regions should obviously be saved for history and sentimental reasons. But what of the other masses of soon to be vacated Nascera regions? Reuse them to improve the rest of Second Life. Waste not, want not!

There are 6 places around the Gaeta V continent which have very narrow pinch points, and whose protected waterways run too close to region corners and private parcels which are hazardous to a smooth sailing pathway around the Gaeta V continent. These 6 places can easily be fixed without expensively creating any new regions, or affecting Resident parcels near to these "pinch points". By luck or coincidence, there are 6 outer "spare" water regions further offshore which are not currently well used or essential to sailing around the Gaeta V continent. They seem not to be used often and could be moved inshore to improve Gaeta V's inshore coastline. The map I've drawn below features these 6 "spare" offshore regions (in turquoise) and where these "spare" offshore regions should be moved to (in red) inshore. Relocating these 6 "spare" offshore regions would ease and prevent the current inshore narrow pinch points and help to avoid hazardous narrow waterways and entering into Resident's private parcel territories. This would also make the Gaeta V continent more compatible for sailing larger "tall ship" style vessels around the continent too. I strongly suggest and propose that the 6 "spare" offshore water regions (Twelve Fathoms, Qoopz, Gaeta Reef, Christarn, Sciello and Unquar) be treated as "donor" regions and relocated to these 6 new inshore positions.

Please complete the coastline of Heterocera continent by adding one water region to the west side of Tiger region. This will complete the perimeter coastline of Heterocera, enabling north/south boat travel on the continent's west side, as well as making a full loop of the continent possible for the first time. Request originally requested as a JIRA Request, [BUG-231433] (Accepted) see: https://github.com/secondlife/jira-archive/issues/8911

Many/most water canals in Heterocera are too shallow. For example, the canal running through http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sylvata/122/102/12 Likewise, it's continuation through several other regions going eastward. There are many other places.

With the Anniversary of Bay City coming up this weekend, it's well past time for Bay City to be connected to the rest of the Sansara road network. I've been able to physically walk out two proposed paths. Both paths would be entirely on Linden owned lands, not taking any resident parcels from existing owners.. The proposed route would start at the info hub in Dore (where the existing road out of Nova Albion ends). Continue south through the Morris sandbox and along the eastern side of historic Oak Grove, though through the portion where there are no builds. Enter into the vehicle sandbox sims and follow one of two paths from that point: Move south at Bethel and use the existing vehicle sandbox pathways and bridge system to translation to a coastal road in Ouranos, dropping into a tunnel or under-water road along the southern edge of Mnemosyne and the southern most edge of Abbotts (currently LL owned), then up the canal in Cowell, connecting to the road at the Noyo parking lot. Continue east through the vehicle sandbox, moving under water at Kapor, through the existing waterway in Stinson, under the "Bay of Space Pigs" and connecting with the roadway in either Rodeo or Omidyar. Both routes would require an underwater road or tunnel system, though considering the quality work with such routes in Jeogeot, there's plenty of precident for that! As stated, we walked both routes from start to finish and found either LDPW or Governor Linden owned parcels the entire way. Happy to walk the route with anyone as well.

I think that there should automatically appear a 1 sim navigable waterway around any land of the mainland. When mainland expands, the buffer 1 sim waterway should expand with it. This way, naviable waters are always available. If two lands join, elimating a waterway, it should appear in the closest edge to that lost one, making sure to provide a route around the lost waterway. Thanks!

Route 8 in Satori actually ends, at North, in Soulgiver sim. Close to that, there are several abandoned lands, so the road could be extended to South West, crossing Gnoll, Dakhanavar and Vampyre. Also, some bit might be added to Ever After and Succubus sims. The new extensions would develop the whole gorgeous Inner Lakes area. The idea comes from 4lice.Cerise, who drawn the map attached.

The snowlands of the Sharp continent are lovely, but the road network (which is good in most of Sharp) is unfortunately not worth driving there because it doesn't connect to the rest of the continent. Is it possible to place a bridge across the 'empty' water sims to connect the road in Mizithra, via a bridge through Lappi, Danbo, and Tenshi, to Svecia please? Note that unfortunately, in Svecia, the connection will be challenging, as Tenshi comes in on the wrong side of the mountain! Ideally you'd want to move Bleu north of Danbo to make this connection very easily (so the connection would go Lappi, Danbo, Bleu (if it's north of Danbo)