Private Land Geography Research
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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: 21
- Divided by mountains: 4
- Divided by objects: 4
- Divided by parcel lines: 5
- Divided by roads: 2
- Divided by water: 4
- Unknown: 10
Geographic type
- Plain: 16
- Hills: 8
- Plateaus (flat): 3
- Terraformed: 1
- Tropical beach paradise: 6
- Mountains & plateaus: 2
- Mountains: 5
- Water: 1
- Unknown: 9
Transportation
- Inside buildings: 4
- None: 24
- Paths: 3
- Roads: 6
- Water: 2
- Unknown: 9
Water presence
- No water: 9
- <40% water: 23
- ~50% water: 5
- >60* water: 1
- Complete flooded: 1
- Unknown: 10
Ground texture
- Complete covered: 4
- Empty ground: 2
- Grass: 20
- Sand: 13
- White: 1
- Unknown: 11
Vegetation
- Colored trees: 2
- Forest: 5
- None: 12
- Parks: 1
- Small plants: 1
- Temperate, not forest: 7
- Tropical: 11
- Various: 1
- Unknown: 11
Building style
- Advertise: 7
- Beach style: 4
- Exposition: 1
- Fantasy: 1
- Medieval: 4
- Modern: 3
- Life in nature: 2
- None: 4
- Old style: 1
- Rustic: 7
- Sci-fi: 1
- Suburbs: 2
- Urban: 3
- Unknown: 11
Land destination
- Club/party: 2
- Commercial, not shops: 3
- For sale, rent: 7
- Private sandbox: 1
- Recreation: 4
- Residential: 13
- Roleplay: 5
- Shops: 7
- Unknown: 9
Access restrictions
- None found: 28
- Themed outfit: 4
- Ban lines: 5
- Entity orbs: 2
- Skybox limited: 1
- No access: 9