List Of Microcontinents And Sim Clusters

This is a list of all groups of sims that are too small or are ot lnked together to form a continent.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This article is in progress, not finished.

Definitions

A Continent is a group of more then 30 sims, linked together in such a way that an avatar can travel from one sim to another. The sims must have Geographic features that continue from a sim to the nearby sims, common types of textures and common transportation systems (roads, raiways, waterways).

A Microcontinent is a group of less then 30 sims, linked together in such a way that an avatar can travel from one sim to another. The sims must have Geographic features that continue from a sim to the nearby sims, common types of textures and common transportation systems (roads, raiways, waterways).

A Sim Cluster is a group with more then 10 sims that are not compleatly connected (usually only on diagonal) and can belong to various estates. If they belong to the same estate, the distance between the sims could be larger.

Reason

These small structures concentrate more then 70% of the sims that form our world. For unknown reasons, not many people worked on to make a map or a list of the small dots and spots on the world map. Since our world is more then 10 years old and its expansion state ended (came to maturity), such lists are required by more and more residents. If any resident is against something in this article, please improve. Also, if you are one of the Linden officials and you are against this article, please delete it.

Position

These small structures are with hundreds on the map. They are created and deleted often, they change their shapes by adding or deleting sims. To find their position, the best way is to use coordinates. There are 3 ways to find the coordinates of a sim: The most easy way is by Gridsurvey [1], where you can enter the name of a sim and you get the coordinates. The second way is to buy a device from marketplace (a compass or coordinate detector or else). The third way is if you create a script with the functions llGetRegionCorner (works easy) or with llRequestSimulatorData (difficult). One useful script is listed here: <lsl> //Created by Ana Imfinity default {

   state_entry()
   {
   }
   touch_start(integer ana)
   {
       string message;
       float xxx;
       float yyy;
       vector corner = llGetRegionCorner();
       xxx = corner.x/256;
       yyy = corner.y/256;
       message =(string)((integer)(xxx))+(string)((integer)(yyy));
       llOwnerSay(message);
   }

} </lsl> Also, to give a good position, you can use the following page: Oceans.

In the list, the coordinates are given in the following form: longitude (min - max) / latitude (min - max).

Names

Since there is no list of references and nobody tried to create this list, I had to give names to the small structures that exist on our map. If anybody knows the names of any microcontinent, sim cluster or group of sims, please help improve the list. Help is needed.

I usually give a name when many sims share a common name or when the sims share a common theme. In rare situations, names can be from nearby Geographic strucutres or from coordinates.

Most usually, the names here are actually numbers, like in Astronomy. They are temporary names, until someone will find a better name.

How to read the list

The format is the following one: Name - Coordinates - Type - Other notes

The type is:

M - microcontinent
S - sim cluster
G - group of sims (others)
I - isolated sims

Other notes - might refer to relative position (see Oceans) or additional info.

List

A001 - 898-902/1427-1432 - M - Far North Ocean, Lost Angeles

A002 - 945-947/1391-1394 - M - Far North Ocean, Liquid designs

A003 - 993-1000/1339-1346 - M - Far North Ocean

A004 (Mar Lesbiana) - 1034-1041/1374-1378 - M - Far North Ocean

A005 - 1054-1058/1317-1319 - M - Far North Ocean (no access), Sanctuary

A006 (University) - S - 1147-1153/1294-1302 - Far North Ocean

A007 - S - 1157-1160/1307-1311 - (no access)

A008 - M - 1102-1105/1244-1246 - Northern Ocean, TAMHSC

A009 (LR sims) - 1139-1366/1196-1210 - A group of 7 identical microcontinents

A010 (EduFinland) - 1138-1144/1182-1185 - Northern Ocean