Private Land Geography Research
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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: 3.5
- Divided by mountains: 0.5
- Divided by objects: 0.4
- Divided by parcel lines: 0.7
- Divided by roads: 0.3
- Divided by water: 0.7
- Unknown: 1.4
Geographic type
- Plain: 2.0
- Hills: 1.2
- Plateaus: 0.8
- Terraformed: 0.2
- Tropical beach paradise: 1.1
- Mountains: 0.9
- Water: 0.2
- Unknown: 1.5
Transportation
- Inside buildings: 0.5
- None: 3.0
- Paths: 0.8
- Roads: 0.9
- Teleporters: 0.1
- Water: 0.7
- Unknown: 1.5
Water presence
- No water: 1.5
- <40% water: 3.0
- ~50% water: 1.1
- >60* water: 0.4
- Complete flooded: 0.1
- Unknown: 1.5
Ground texture
- Complete covered: 0.5
- Empty ground: 0.4
- Grass: 3.2
- Sand: 1.9
- White: 0.2
- Unknown: 1.4
Vegetation
- Colored trees: 0.3
- Forest: 0.6
- None: 1.8
- Parks: 0.2
- Small plants: 0.3
- Temperate, not forest: 1.1
- Tropical: 1.9
- Unknown: 1.6
Building style
- Advertise: 1.0
- Beach style: 0.9
- Exposition: 0.1
- Fantasy: 0.1
- Medieval: 0.7
- Modern: 0.6
- Life in nature: 0.2
- None: 0.6
- Old style: 0.1
- Rustic: 1.1
- Sci-fi: 0.2
- Suburbs: 0.2
- Urban: 0.3
- Unknown: 1.7
Land destination
- Club/party: 0.3
- Commercial, not shops: 0.3
- For sale, rent: 1.1
- Private sandbox: 0.2
- Recreation: 1.1
- Residential: 1.9
- Roleplay: 0.7
- Shops: 1.0
- Unknown: 1.4
Access restrictions
- None found: 4.7
- Themed outfit: 0.6
- Ban lines: 0.6
- Entity orbs: 0.2
- Skybox limited: 0.1
- No access: 1.4