region name usage comparison

Further to the issues regarding non-unique region name support in Second Life, I did a bit of research regarding the rather inconsistent implementation of non-unique vs unique region name support in aspects or systems of Second Life that were developed by Linden Lab.

List of systems using/supporting modes of region name usage.
unique non-unique.
  • the World Map, region search list non-unique sims have to be clicked on directly in the map, selecting a region from the list does not work- compare interesting with the results from a search for “corsica_reg9″ with “Help Island”.
  • secondlife:///app/ teleportation URLs.
  • slurl.com
  • Linden Lab’s webmap API, get region name at co-ordinates call.
  • Linden Lab’s webmap API, get co-ordinates for given region call.
  • Landmarks.
  • Events, old archive (uses slurl.com links).
  • Events, world.secondlife.com archive. (uses slurl.com links).
  • llMapDestination() provides only a region name parameter.
  • llRequestSimulatorData() also only provides a region name parameter.
  • The world map, display and direct-click only.
  • The voice map API.
  • It could be argued that by indexing Region documents by UUID, world.secondlife.com supports non-unique region names.

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