If you are passioned of Geography and you want to have a good image of the land around you, these tools are very good.
Also, if you are a land baron, this will give you a good information about land features of the land you just want to purchase or trade.
And also, if you are a fellow resident and want to purchase a slice of land or if you want to know what is around your land, these tools will show many hidden things about land.
CONTINENT PARCELS - this is a tool that gives you information about accessibility. Touch it and you will see how friendly are your neighbors:
No access: 0.000000%
No scripts: 8.837891%
No unseated object entry: 35.156250%
Rezz allowed: 38.305664%
Passable land: 17.700195%
PARCELS HUD - use to see a map of nearby access restrictions. Colors are as follows:
No access: RED
No scripts: YELLOW
No unseated object entry: DARK GREEN
Rezz allowed: GREEN
Passable land: LIGHT GREEN.
CONTINENT POPULATION - use to see how populated with objects is a sim. If you get a result of over 80%, beware that you are in a place where lag might reach high levels. Sometimes, you might get results of over 100%, this clearly is a sim that makes problems.
80% is a limit for a mainland sim, but if you are in a homestead or in openspace, data should be much more different and a 40% might be something close to limit. For a private full sim, you shouldn't worry of values even higher then 100%.
Object population = 42.609814%,
uninhabited land = 0.000000%
Uninhabited land is usually abandoned land, a space that hosts really nothing
POPULATION HUD - it's a device made to see for each parcel how high is object density.
BLUE is a place with no objects. If you see this on mainland, usually it is abandoned land. Else, it's uninhabited land.
GREEN is land with very few objects. Most often, this is protected land or protected route.
YELLOW/ORANGE is a land with not too much objects.
RED is a land where objects go close to land maximum limit.
DARK RED/BLACK is used for those parcels with more objects then the land allows. This means that another parcel somewhere is paying the excess prim count.
These tools are used by Second Life Geography Team and have been used at many Geographic research projects.
- Check lag & object population for each parcel
- Check if land is abandoned or unused
- See access restrictions
- See protected ways
- Object/script restrictions
Don't Buy It!
This is basically a complete rip off. At the end of the included notecard is the statement, "Not all huds included in all packages." What? This product describes huds it is suppose to include then doesn't include them? WTF? In my package the huds not included were why I bought the package the parcel huds. Not included! Of the 3 that were included: 2 Continent Huds seemed to do nothing. The Owners Hud did paint some kind of static view of the sim but if you move who knows what becomes of the orientation. Worthless.
