/news/?cat=Second LifeWell, Philip Linden has broken the news that Linden Lab can't "afford" to keep updating the worldmap's UUID images.
Lex: Hmm, what an interesting problem. We had never contemplated the idea of someone hacking the viewer to get access to the UUID's for the map tile. So, the problem is that the existing system isn't scalable - essentially LL is covering the bill to inject new UUID's every few days into our asset system. We are expanding our own storage system to hold the map tile data, and of course greatly increasing the update frequency (which is good for all SL users) then would cost us even more if we keep this system going.

So it seems to me that we shouldn't keep pushing map tiles into our system as assets, even to keep your system running. LL (and by extension all SL users) is paying for this cost, and it certainly wasn't an intended use. Wouldn't you tend to agree?

This means that all your products that you sell in-world will no longer be able to display current map image data without someone else footing L$10 per image uploaded.

Sorry, everyone. But Subnova can't afford US$1,200 in upload costs every time the map images are updated on SLURL.com. Apparently, LL can't either (I wonder who they pay that L$10 to for the uploads).

I'll keep my system online in the event someone decides to change their mind... but seeing as how the images haven't updated in the past month yet... I think what we have now is the end.



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