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: 19.2
- Divided by mountains: 2.2
- Divided by objects: 1.5
- Divided by parcel lines: 6.1
- Divided by roads: 1.3
- Divided by water: 6.8
- Unknown: 8.5
Geographic type
- Hills: 5.8
- Mountains: 5.4
- Plain: 10.0
- Plateaus: 4.1
- Terraformed: 2.8
- Tropical beach paradise: 8.6
- Water: 1.4
- Unknown: 8.8
Transportation
- Air: 0.4
- Inside buildings: 3.6
- None: 16.6
- Paths: 5.1
- Railways: 0.5
- Roads: 5.2
- Water: 4.9
- Unknown: 9.1
Water presence
- No water: 9.1
- <40% water: 18.5
- ~50% water: 6.3
- >60* water: 3.3
- Complete flooded: 0.6
- Unknown: 8.5
Ground texture
- Complete covered: 2.7
- Designed special: 0.3
- Empty ground: 1.9
- Grass: 20.7
- Sand: 11.2
- White: 0.4
- Unknown: 8.8
Vegetation
- Colored plants: 1.4
- Forest: 4.1
- None: 9.6
- Parks: 1.4
- Small plants: 1.5
- Temperate, not forest: 6.9
- Tropical: 11.4
- Water plants: 0.3
- Unknown: 9.7
Building style
- Advertise (large): 2.5
- Advertise (small): 2.2
- Antiquity: 0.6
- Beach style: 7.7
- Exposition: 0.6
- Fantasy: 1.0
- Far East & East: 0.6
- Industrial: 0.2
- Later then medieval: 1.1
- Medieval: 2.1
- Modern: 3.0
- None: 3.1
- Not quite buildings: 0.5
- Ruins: 0.3
- Rural: 2.3
- Rustic: 3.6
- Sci-fi: 0.9
- Suburbs: 2.7
- Under water: 0.1
- Urban: 1.6
- Unknown: 9.1
Land destination
- Club/party: 1.7
- Commercial, not shops: 1.6
- For sale, rent: 4.5
- Institution: 1.0
- Not used: 1.0
- Private sandbox: 0.2
- Recreation: 9.3
- Residential: 11.7
- Roleplay: 2.9
- Shops: 3.3
- Unknown: 9.0
Access restrictions
- None found: 30.9
- Themed outfit: 0.9
- Ban lines: 3.7
- Entity orbs: 2.0
- Skybox limited: 1.6
- No access: 7.0