Arcore-android-sdk: Cloud anchors expiring?

[iBicha]

According to the docs, anchors visual mapping data is gone is 7 days, and sparse point map is gone in 1 day.

Does that mean, if a user creates an anchor (with whatever content) and comes back tomorrow to load it, it wouldn't work? If this is the case, that's a really weird limitation to impose?
Thanks.

[inio]

We made a conscious decision that the first offering of Cloud Anchors would not provide persistence. It is really intended for simultaneous multi-user applications.

[inio]

Duplicate of #94

[iBicha]

@inio Is there a plan or a roadmap behind this? There are very obvious use cases where this feature is necessary. I would love to get a glance at ARCore's future plans before going ahead and implementing a custom solution (and potentially reinvent the wheel) or relying on a 3rd party service to achieve this (as far as I know, few startups are working on a similar service)
Thank you

[inio]

@iBicha So far we've been extremely quiet about feature plans. There's a reason #27 has been sitting open since shortly after we launched this repo and it's not that I'm lazy ;). Longer-term persistence is obviously a desirable feature, and I've left #94 open to track that.

[iBicha]

Understood, thank you for the response. I guess I will wait a bit longer and see what happens.
Cheers.

[bitcloudTheFirst]

Has this limitation been lifted yet?