Land & Public Works

Previously submitted to Jira. https://github.com/secondlife/jira-archive/issues/9093 Referencing the region "Blake Sea - Nelson" at location 290816, 268800. (See attached screenshot) A 48m x 48m parcel is located in the NE corner of the region. This parcel is named "Blake Sea Rez Zone" and has build enabled for all, with autoreturn set to 10 minutes. This parcel can be described as SW <204, 204>, and NE <252, 252> I would like to see similar Rez Zone parcels created on the public waterways in the Adult Regions commonly referred to as "Zindra" or "The Adult Continent". Suggested regions include: (See attached map) Aigar Blenwyn Bruda Derimon Desantos Deshmo Farumier Galchari Garmu Gemare Gurbsyk Henker Hoxel Beach Kellig Linkous McFarley Melisande Nines Nordred Okamoto Podyan Popke Tal Qrassica Quinsen Reiner Selano Beach Selano Beach East Selano Beach West Seylar Shell Beach Tashina Trinoo Trulan Van Daemo Wardle Wavewatcher Whorlebow Zindra Ocean Zurn and Horizons regions: Horizons Comet Horizons Cressida Horizons Janus Horizons Leda Horizons Maia Horizons Metis Horizons Oberon Horizons Pallas Horizons Phoebe Horizons Rigel Horizons Rocket Horizons Thebe Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community? Anyone who's crossed a region boundary in a vehicle more than a few times has surely experienced the frustration of a service disconnect. On public thoroughfares like roads and waterways, vehicles can be autoreturned before you have a opportunity to reconnect and re-sit. Adding, of course, the scourge of privacy orbs and other automated security systems which can eject and teleport avatars home without warning. Travel in SL is at times, an endurance challenge. To sooth the frustrations of these situations, "Rez Zones" have been created on many public travel routes. New lands created for Linden Home projects (for example) routinely include rez zones for road vehicles, watercraft, and even aircraft. In a recent boating excursion, I decided to visit the adult regions. While the "Horizons" Infohubs include rez zones for watercraft, they are evidently the only public works rezzing zones on water, in the entire adult mainland area. Creating rezzing zones, similar to those on Blake Sea, in the Zindra waterways would ease the pain of having to 'start over' due to a failed region transit, or overactive privacy script, and would generally make the experience of travel in these regions more appealing to those interested in doing so.|

I spotted a lamp hanging on a string in the air at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/de%20Grasse/141/47/27 as well as stairs leading to this empty spot which show that there was a building here before which is missing now. After a little search I found out that after 25 August 2019 most of the Western Cape build in De Grasse was removed, then in June 2020 most of it was restored, but this pavilion, the plants around it, and other parts of the build were not restored. I found two pictures of the Western Cape from 2018 which show the missing details: The pavilion (I think there were seats inside where people could sit), the plants around it and that big purple plant or crystals at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/de%20Grasse/141/47/27 A large part of the plaza and several trees and other plants at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/de%20Grasse/64/13/24 The corner of the plaza at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/de%20Grasse/168/59/25 should be at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/de%20Grasse/168/79/25 - 20 meters forward to the North, but that is the smallest problem here. You can see the complete layout of this site in the first 2 pictures. The following 3 pictures are the map tiles that show the region's layout before the objects were removed, then after the objects were removed, and then after the partial restoration. The last 3 pictures show the region today, where you can see all the missing items compared to the first 2 pictures, as well as the missing pavilion with the stairs and the floating lamp. I was new in SL when this happened, so I only looked into this now. I know this was intended as a ruin anyway, but as you can see in the first two pictures, this place looked very nice back then, but now with the missing pavilion, plants and part of the plaza that connects to Nautilus - Shalim, it is too much of a ruin. It would be nice to have this site restored to the condition shown in the first two pictures.

I wanted to LM the end of the road for future journeys, but using the LM drops me in the water instead. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hikuelo/68/235/23

Abandoned Land is a blight, in-and-of itself.. an unnaturally blank patch of land looks off, out of place. In real life, when land is abandoned and not cared for, grass with grow, weeds will take root, forgotten yard-sale and campaign signs, bits of cardboard, old tires and other litter finds it's way to the parcel and lingers. Folks without homes will build little camps, neighborhood ruffians build forts. Let's liven up these 'dead' spaces, with a little tongue-in-cheek way to say "this land is abandoned".

Now that Waterhead is indicated as the major last destination on the TSC from Luna (14 km from the Luna tunnel), would it be possible to place at least one rez zone where we can park our vehicles and/or rez them? It would not hurt to add a small road leading to the Linden Labs headquarters from the Waterhead info hub either. For now one has to drive through some phantom forest trees. Thanks.

It looks like object entry was turned off during the tunnel construction on the Coastal Waterway parcels in these 4 regions and it wasn't restored ever since. This is not great for vehicles since on a failed region crossing or if you have to stand up and sit again, the vehicle gets returned and this is completely disruptive for automated vehicles. All other Coastal Waterway parcels in the other regions in the area have object entry enabled as these used to as well.

Linden Route 14, on the southwest side of Nautilus continent is currently isolated from all other sections of Nautilus' overall Linden Route road network. But there is a relatively "easy" fix using abandoned vacant land. Link Route 14 to the closest point to Route 13. This location winds through the regions of Grolphook, Servo and Baddest. I propose this new link road be built and paved to the plan below, which has two possible route options:

At https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Zephyr/201/156/34 (Heterocera) where Sandhill Sage Road meets with Route 1, for a stretch you can see the ground under the Route 1 road surface.

As you can see in the screenshots below, the first is from neighboring Birchwood. Normally all regions on Corsica have these 512x512 terrain textures. For some reason all the terrain textures in New Bloom Mountain are 128x128 ever since it was built, this is why the terrain is extremely low resolution here. (This is 16 times lower resolution than everywhere else.) This can be seen in the third screenshot with the corner of New Bloom Mountain between Birchwood and Jessgate. Needless to say, the entire mountain would look much better with the 512px textures.

Second Life needs a Route 66. (Maybe 67 if calling it the real one is too much?) Like a fully signposted historic route that just goes through nearly everything on the mainland. People will come to drive the whole route as a cultural pilgrimage and people will want to set up roadside attractions and it would be like a homage to the real route 66. I don't think it would actually take too much work. We can piggy back off the existing road network and simply add some new signage. A few new bridges or tunnels might be necessary to connect some continents and make a long continuous route. But I think it would be worth it and make a huge new landmark/attraction in Second Life of sorts.