Please consider adding an endpoint to the map API for fetching data useful for navigating the grid. This data would be readily available map information. At the present, this is a very, very strange task to accomplish. We can pound LL's servers using this API: https://cap.secondlife.com/cap/0/b713fe80-283b-4585-af4d-a3b7d9a32492?var=region&grid_x=1000&grid_y=1000 And scanning every possible range of coordinates we think is useful. Or We can use a bot on a custom viewer, making MapBlockRequests until we've got the whole grid. Each of these really need an external service running, and hit your servers pretty hard--but it's all for information that you already have that would be valuable to us to use for scripted applications (eg for navigation HUDs, custom maps, games with distributed locations, exploration apps, touring pods) and also, just in general to know how our world is doing. Proposal: Two https endpoints to fetch paginated region info lists. First API endpont: region list by number. The order is determined by LL and is arbitrary, but is used for pagination. A script can ask for the first N regions, then another set of regions starting from N and so on. In this way, scripts can parse the region list without hitting the api server, sim, or script memory too hard Second API endpoint: region list by name. Similar to searching a word on the map and getting one or several regions that match the name. Responses are delivered as JSON, with each region'd details in an object of the following form: { { "name" : "Da Boom", "coordinate" : "<1000.0, 1000.0, 0.0>", "estate_name" : "mainland", "region_map_image" : "7963f194-82f9-23b3-3d89-c21f1bd0a8bc", "access_name":"Moderate" } } Example of using the first endpoint, the enumerated API: The endpoint can be called with a page number, and an optional maximum. For example, suppose we are permitted up to 25 list items in a single call: Example: Fetch default 25 items starting with the 437th region in the rest api: https://cap.secondlife/com/cap/NUMERICAL_ENDPOINT?start=437 Example: Fetch only 5 items starting with the 75th region in the rest api: https://cap.secondlife/com/cap/NUMERICAL_ENDPOINT?start=75&length=5 In this way, external services we write and LSL code in-world could reasonably work with the large list of region data in a way that doesn't flood the API (feel free to rate limit) and that permits us to work within script memory limits. Example of using the second endpoint, the named API: The endpoint is called with a search term, and returns one or more regions that have a name starting with the term. There should be a minimum character limit. Ecample: Fetch regions starting with the name "Da B" https://cap.secondlife/com/cap/NAME_ENDPOINT?search=Da%20B Summary: There are many standing requests for access to the map tile information, map region names, and map grid coordinates, all in separate feature requests. I propose this API mechanism to capture data you already have in a way that solves every request.
