When going to https://maps.secondlife.com/ it defaults to showing the area around Ahern in old Sansara (also displaying the Destination Guide Picks on the left side). However, if using https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ then the same area is shown but a pop-up appears, as in the screenshot below, saying: We are unable to locate the region "Ahern"

This seems like unwanted behavior. It should show the same thing (and the DG Picks) with either URL, without the pop-up, especially since we're not actually able to specify a region with only the base URL but need to have "secondlife/" there when doing so.

As an aside, do we really that additional path? Could we change it so that people could just type something like maps.secondlife.com/Ahern/ and have it find a particular region that way too, maybe through a server-side URL redirect/rewrite?

I know the Map API links to some resources stored at https://maps.secondlife.com/examples/ (which could potentially create a conflict) but perhaps those could be moved elsewhere. There may well be a good reason for the "secondlife/" path to still be required and for why this can't be changed. It just seems a little redundant.