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: 13.0
- Divided by mountains: 1.7
- Divided by objects: 0.8
- Divided by parcel lines: 4.8
- Divided by roads: 1.0
- Divided by water: 5.2
- Unknown: 6.7
Geographic type
- Hills: 3.6
- Mountains: 3.6
- Plain: 7.7
- Plateaus: 3.4
- Terraformed: 2.1
- Tropical beach paradise: 6.7
- Water: 1.1
- Unknown: 6.7
Transportation
- Air: 0.2
- Inside buildings: 2.9
- None: 11.6
- Paths: 3.5
- Railways: 0.2
- Roads: 4.1
- Teleporters: 0.2
- Water: 3.9
- Unknown: 7.0
Water presence
- No water: 6.3
- <40% water: 13.0
- ~50% water: 4.8
- >60* water: 2.6
- Complete flooded: 0.6
- Unknown: 7.2
Ground texture
- Complete covered: 2.3
- Designed special: 0.1
- Empty ground: 1.6
- Grass: 14.3
- Sand: 8.5
- White: 0.3
- Unknown: 7.2
Vegetation
- Colored plants: 1.0
- Forest: 2.6
- None: 7.3
- Parks: 0.7
- Small plants: 1.3
- Temperate, not forest: 5.1
- Tropical: 8.7
- Water plants: 0.3
- Unknown: 7.5
Building style
- Advertise (large): 2.2
- Advertise (small): 1.7
- Antiquity: 0.2
- Beach style: 6.1
- Exposition: 0.5
- Fantasy: 0.8
- Far East: 0.1
- Industrial: 0.1
- Later then medieval: 0.8
- Medieval: 1.6
- Modern: 2.1
- None: 2.3
- Not buildings: 0.2
- Ruins: 0.2
- Rural: 1.3
- Rustic: 2.5
- Sci-fi: 0.6
- State themed: 0.3
- Suburbs: 2.0
- Under water: 0.1
- Urban: 1.3
- Unknown: 6.9
Land destination
- Club/party: 1.4
- Commercial, not shops: 1.5
- For sale, rent: 3.0
- Institution: 0.7
- Not used: 0.6
- Private sandbox: 0.2
- Recreation: 6.7
- Residential: 9.4
- Roleplay: 2.0
- Shops: 2.6
- Unknown: 6.7
Access restrictions
- None found: 22.3
- Themed outfit: 0.8
- Ban lines: 2.2
- Entity orbs: 1.4
- Skybox limited: 1.2
- No access: 5.5