Genesis city map, 6-month renewal

by 0xb3197cad2032899ef2f33bf0e8a26f3ac5b48b03 (seibo)

Should the following $32,700 grant in the Platform category be approved?

Abstract

Maintain, update, and improve https://genesis.city/, a top-down map of Decentraland. This is an extension of the previous grant: https://governance.decentraland.org/proposal/?id=9d6efbe0-65d1-11ed-bf97-7dbf9f54c71d

We’ll continue maintaining the website, running the mapping script weekly, and improving the product according to community feedback.

Grant size

32,700 USD in DAI

Project duration

6 months

Beneficiary address

0x74B495aC736874BfD53bC8238a8f8fa2b195833F

Email address

seibo03@gmail.com

Description

As you may know, we have been fortunate enough to receive funding from the Decentraland DAO three times in the past (1,2,3), which has enabled us to keep our project running and growing.

In December 2022, our last grant was approved to continue working on features for the map and regularly update the project.

In the past six months, we have made significant progress. We added two new layers: "Points of Interest" and "Estates", which we also polished to provide a better user experience.

Points of Interest layer:

Estates layer:

Furthermore, we’ve implemented a permalinks system that allows users to link to specific coordinates on the map and updates the URL when moving the map. We have also added a parcel information modal that appears when you click on a specific parcel on the map. This sign displays the parcel URL link, which users can copy and share.

We’ve allowed the community to report broken coordinates, which has enabled us to make more accurate weekly updates to the map with the help of our users.

Finally, we improved our project's maintenance processes and stability. We paid off some technical debt, fixed bugs, and improved our database backup system.

On the team front, our previous developer (Rodrigo Heredia) left the project, and we welcomed Ivan as our new developer.

We remain committed to engaging with our community and continue to receive valuable feedback from our users, including requests for new features and improvements.

This grant will set up a budget, including salaries and expenses (web hosting, image storage, and domain name renewal), to run this team for the next 6 months of developments and updates. We will request further grants in the future if the community continues to be happy with our work.

Roadmap and milestones

As the Genesis City project approaches its second year, our team has been reflecting on our mission and vision. We have defined the following objectives:

• Help the community discover Decentraland content
• Make people want to upload more content to Decentraland

We will update the map weekly for 6 months. Once that time has elapsed we will request another grant.

Here are some of the projects in our roadmap:

• Create a user survey for gathering project feedback
• Implement a search feature for locating particular areas
• Share weekly parcel/scene recommendations from our team
• Dark mode Layer
• Establish a communication channel with the Foundation and showcase their featured content
• Create and share weekly tweets to increase project visibility
• Add status to the permalink system
• Add ability to log in with Metamask and display user-owned lands
• Move bug reporting to Netlify forms
• Add land/estate metadata on mouse over
• Go-to-marketplace for parcels on sale and rent Layer
• API for getting images from the map centered at specific coordinates
• Integrate livestream of virtual cameras from certain points in DCL
• Create a scoring system for the lands (review system)
• Offer isometric views (e.g., for Points of Interest)

(more in comments)

We will continue improving the website and mapping script based on this list and future suggestions by our community. Please let us know which features are the most important to you, so we can prioritize accordingly.

This proposal is summarized due to technical limitations. To view it complete and vote on it, visit the DCL DAO Governance dApp