I have recently tagged a few of Torley’s photos from Second Life, and seeing as he just places a link to the location, it reminded me of asking you guys this: why is no one using the “secondlife:region”, “secondlife:x”, “secondlife:y”, and “secondlife:z” tags for photos? First, the “secondlife:region” tag would do great if someone wants to look up photos from a particular region. Second, there is a very popular Greasemonkey script which uses these machine tags to put a little note on the side with region coordinates and a teleportation link:

  Taken and made by Jessica Shannon

The script adds a little teleportation link, as you see, to either a SLURL map location or inworld — haven’t used it in a while — and simplifies the process of looking for the teleportation link and teleporting. (If I knew the Greasemonkey API, i’d make a big shiny “Teleport” button next to it.) In addition, this is also useful for computer bots. For example, an inworld bot that scans Flickr photos and shows them inworld, could supply a teleportation link, if the photo has appropriate machine tags. Because currently, some using SLURL, some SLBuzz, and a few more use an unknown source, so the computer application searching for the teleportation link, may not find it.

And so, I ask you: use the Second Life machine tags! There is information about each tag below:

• secondlife:region=[REGION NAME HERE]
• secondlife:x=[X COORDINATES HERE] 
• secondlife:y=[Y COORDINATES HERE] 
• secondlife:z=[Z COORDINATES HERE]