Private Land Geography Research
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NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS IN PROGRESS. PLEASE WAIT TO BE FINISHED. ESTIMATED FINISH TIME: SEPTEMBER 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: 17.0
- Divided by mountains: 2.1
- Divided by objects: 1.3
- Divided by parcel lines: 5.9
- Divided by roads: 1.2
- Divided by water: 6.1
- Unknown: 8.5
Geographic type
- Hills: 5.5
- Mountains: 5.2
- Plain: 9.2
- Plateaus: 4.0
- Terraformed: 2.5
- Tropical beach paradise: 7.7
- Water: 1.3
- Unknown: 8.6
Transportation
- Air: 0.4
- Inside buildings: 3.4
- None: 15.0
- Paths: 4.9
- Railways: 0.3
- Roads: 4.8
- Water: 4.8
- Unknown: 8.9
Water presence
- No water: 8.1
- <40% water: 17.5
- ~50% water: 5.9
- >60* water: 3.0
- Complete flooded: 0.6
- Unknown: 8.3
Ground texture
- Complete covered: 2.4
- Designed special: 0.3
- Empty ground: 1.8
- Grass: 19.4
- Sand: 10.1
- White: 0.4
- Unknown: 8.7
Vegetation
- Colored plants: 1.2
- Forest: 4.0
- None: 9.1
- Parks: 1.1
- Small plants: 1.4
- Temperate, not forest: 6.5
- Tropical: 10.3
- Water plants: 0.3
- Unknown: 9.5
Building style
- Advertise (large): 2.4
- Advertise (small): 2.1
- Antiquity: 0.6
- Beach style: 7.0
- Exposition: 0.6
- Fantasy: 0.8
- Far East: 0.3
- Industrial: 0.2
- Later then medieval: 1.0
- Medieval: 2.0
- Modern: 2.8
- None: 3.0
- Not quite buildings: 0.5
- Ruins: 0.3
- Rural: 2.2
- Rustic: 3.5
- Sci-fi: 0.8
- State themed: 0.2
- Suburbs: 2.4
- Under water: 0.1
- Urban: 1.3
- Unknown: 8.8
Land destination
- Club/party: 1.5
- Commercial, not shops: 1.6
- For sale, rent: 4.3
- Institution: 1.0
- Not used: 1.0
- Private sandbox: 0.2
- Recreation: 8.5
- Residential: 10.7
- Roleplay: 2.6
- Shops: 3.1
- Unknown: 8.8
Access restrictions
- None found: 28.7
- Themed outfit: 0.9
- Ban lines: 3.3
- Entity orbs: 1.9
- Skybox limited: 1.4
- No access: 7.0