Description

In February 2022, our community approved a Decentraland DAO grant that enabled us to create, update and make freely available to the community a [top-down view map of genesis city](https://genesis.city/). You can read the grant proposal [here](https://governance.decentraland.org/proposal/?id=b8219300-900f-11ec-9794-c9ea21a9ed8f). In June 2022, [another grant](https://governance.decentraland.org/proposal/?id=4fad3e80-e74b-11ec-82d9-d917cdd158ac) was approved to continue working on features for the map and regularly update the project. Since getting the second grant, we’ve been updating the map with a weekly cadence (instead of monthly), we’ve worked on an optimized new mapping script with a transversal algorithm that is much more efficient than the old version and we’ve fully automated the zoom layer process by unifying the map zoom layer creation. We’ve also enabled showing extra info on top of LAND by creating a new layering system. We are now showing recently changed tiles and are currently working on showing estate delimitations. We also started saving weekly LAND content changelogs for archival purposes. Lastly, we’ve worked with a graphic designer who did the redesign of our website, getting a brand-fresh new view. Previous map UI:  New map UI:  We still receive a lot of feedback from the community, with requests to develop new features and things they would like to see. This grant will set up a budget, including salaries and expenses (web hosting, image storage, and domain name renewal, for now), to run this team for the next 6 months of developments and updates. Further grants will be requested by us in the future if the community continues to be happy with our work.