Question reqarding maps

[XbabylonX]

Hello,

I was reading the following article

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Map_API_Introduction

and at the "Accesing map images directly" paragraph, provides an example:

X,Y - X and Y coordinates on the Second Life Grid of the region, for example, region Ahern is (997,1002).

Says Ahern coordinates are 997-1002. I dont know how one can get these numbers for any sim.

Some lights please?

 

PS Im sorry if this is not the correct forum to post it!

[Dora Gustafson]

With the llRequestSimulatorData() you can get the sim's coordinates when you know the name

With llGetRegionCorner() you can get the corner coordinates for the region the script is in

:smileysurprised::smileyvery-happy:

[Qie Niangao]

Right, or if you just need those coordinates for a specific sim (not in LSL), can call the cap with a URL like this:

https://cap.secondlife.com/cap/0/d661249b-2b5a-4436-966a-3d3b8d7a574f?var=coords&sim_name=Ahern

as documented on the Map API Reference page. (The "opposite" cap was broken for a long, long time, but they both seem to work again at the moment.)

Also, a minor detail about using LSL to find the map grid coordinates of a region: those are actually the global coordinates of the region's corner divided by 256 -- that is, llGetRegionCorner() and llRequestSimulatorData() return global coordinates in 1-meter units, and the map grid uses global coordinates in one-region units.

 

[XbabylonX]

Thank you so much both!