Private Land Geography Research
NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS IN PROGRESS. PLEASE WAIT TO BE FINISHED. ESTIMATED FINISH TIME: AUGUST 1ST 2014. IN THE END, RESULTS WILL BE SHOWN IN PERCENTS
Private-owned sims are the vast majority of land on the grid. They show a high diversity in Geographic features: land features, ground texture, vegetation and buildings. In many cases, they also have a complex system of skyboxes. But, a classification of these land features is possible and it shows in fact what are the aspirations of the people behind the scene.
Private sims are found in the following places:
- Private Subcontinents (attached to Sansara and Nautilus continents)
- Private Continents (smaller then the Linden-owned ones)
- Private Microcontinents (the vast majority)
- Private Sim Clusters (the vast majority)
- Private Sim Groups (almost all of them)
- Unassociated Sims (100% of them)
- Isolated Sims (all of them).
The following listings are the data collected by Second Life Geography team by visiting private-owned sims.
Geographic features
Land fragmentation
- Undivided: 6.9
- Divided by mountains: 1.4
- Divided by objects: 0.5
- Divided by parcel lines: 2.2
- Divided by roads: 0.7
- Divided by water: 2.7
- Unknown: 3.6
Geographic type
- Hills: 2.2
- Mountains: 1.4
- Plain: 3.8
- Plateaus: 2.5
- Terraformed: 0.8
- Tropical beach paradise: 3.7
- Water: 0.6
- Unknown: 3.6
Transportation
- Air: 0.1
- Inside buildings: 1.2
- None: 6.5
- Paths: 1.9
- Railways: 0.1
- Roads: 2.3
- Teleporters: 0.2
- Water: 2.3
- Unknown: 3.6
Water presence
- No water: 3.2
- <40% water: 6.9
- ~50% water: 2.6
- >60* water: 1.5
- Complete flooded: 0.3
- Unknown: 3.6
Ground texture
- Complete covered: 1.2
- Empty ground: 1.0
- Grass: 7.0
- Sand: 5.4
- White: 0.2
- Unknown: 4.1
Vegetation
- Colored plants: 0.5
- Forest: 1.1
- None: 3.8
- Parks: 0.5
- Small plants: 0.6
- Temperate, not forest: 3.1
- Tropical: 5.1
- Water plants: 0.2
- Unknown: 3.8
Building style
- Advertise (large): 1.2
- Advertise (small): 1.0
- Arabic: 0.1
- Beach style: 3.5
- Exposition: 0.3
- Fantasy: 0.5
- Medieval: 1.0
- Modern: 1.0
- None: 1.2
- Old, not medieval: 0.4
- Ruins: 0.2
- Rural: 0.4
- Rustic: 1.6
- Sci-fi: 0.3
- Suburbs: 1.2
- Under water: 0.1
- Urban: 0.9
- Unknown: 3.8
Land destination
- Club/party: 0.9
- Commercial, not shops: 0.9
- For sale, rent: 2.0
- Institution: 0.3
- Not used: 0.1
- Private sandbox: 0.2
- Recreation: 3.5
- Residential: 5.4
- Roleplay: 1.0
- Shops: 1.5
- Unknown: 3.5
Access restrictions
- None found: 12.0
- Themed outfit: 0.6
- Ban lines: 1.3
- Entity orbs: 0.7
- Skybox limited: 0.5
- No access: 3.0