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: 8.8
- Divided by mountains: 1.6
- Divided by objects: 0.7
- Divided by parcel lines: 3.1
- Divided by roads: 0.7
- Divided by water: 3.2
- Unknown: 5.1
Geographic type
- Hills: 2.8
- Mountains: 1.8
- Plain: 5.8
- Plateaus: 2.8
- Terraformed: 1.1
- Tropical beach paradise: 4.2
- Water: 0.7
- Unknown: 5.1
Transportation
- Air: 0.1
- Inside buildings: 2.0
- None: 8.4
- Paths: 2.5
- Railways: 0.1
- Roads: 2.6
- Teleporters: 0.2
- Water: 2.4
- Unknown: 5.1
Water presence
- No water: 4.9
- <40% water: 8.7
- ~50% water: 3.1
- >60* water: 1.7
- Complete flooded: 0.3
- Unknown: 4.6
Ground texture
- Complete covered: 1.4
- Empty ground: 1.1
- Grass: 9.7
- Sand: 6.2
- White: 0.2
- Unknown: 5.5
Vegetation
- Colored plants: 0.7
- Forest: 1.4
- None: 5.1
- Parks: 0.6
- Small plants: 0.9
- Temperate, not forest: 3.8
- Tropical: 5.8
- Water plants: 0.3
- Unknown: 5.7
Building style
- Advertise (large): 1.6
- Advertise (small): 1.1
- Antiquity: 0.1
- State themed: 0.2
- Beach style: 3.9
- Exposition: 0.4
- Fantasy: 0.6
- Far East: 0.1
- Later medieval: 0.6
- Medieval: 1.1
- Modern: 1.4
- None: 1.5
- Ruins: 0.2
- Rural: 0.7
- Rustic: 2.0
- Sci-fi: 0.3
- Suburbs: 1.6
- Under water: 0.1
- Urban: 1.0
- Unknown: 5.0
Land destination
- Club/party: 1.0
- Commercial, not shops: 1.3
- For sale, rent: 2.5
- Institution: 0.6
- Not used: 0.1
- Private sandbox: 0.2
- Recreation: 4.4
- Residential: 6.7
- Roleplay: 1.0
- Shops: 1.8
- Unknown: 4.9
Access restrictions
- None found: 15.2
- Themed outfit: 0.7
- Ban lines: 1.5
- Entity orbs: 0.9
- Skybox limited: 0.8
- No access: 4.2