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: 25.8
- Divided by mountains: 3.1
- Divided by objects: 2.7
- Divided by parcel lines: 8.1
- Divided by roads: 2.4
- Divided by water: 8.9
- Unknown: 10.1
Geographic type
- Hills: 7.2
- Mountains: 8.3
- Plain: 14.3
- Plateaus: 5.8
- Terraformed: 3.2
- Tropical beach paradise: 11.3
- Water: 2.4
- Unknown: 10.3
Transportation
- Air: 0.5
- Inside buildings: 4.8
- None: 23.9
- Paths: 6.8
- Railways: 0.8
- Roads: 7.1
- Water: 6.3
- Unknown: 10.7
Water presence
- No water: 12.3
- <40% water: 25.7
- ~50% water: 8.7
- >60* water: 5.9
- Complete flooded: 0.8
- Unknown: 9.2
Ground texture
- Covered ground: 3.0
- Designed special: 0.5
- Empty ground: 2.5
- Grass: 30.8
- Sand: 14.8
- White: 0.4
- Unknown: 9.8
Vegetation
- Colored plants: 2.4
- Dead plants & desert: 0.2
- Forest: 7.5
- None: 12.3
- Parks: 1.5
- Small plants: 2.1
- Temperate, not forest: 9.6
- Tropical: 14.5
- Water submerged plants: 0.5
- Unknown: 11.7
Building style
- Advertise (large): 3.3
- Advertise (small): 3.2
- Antiquity: 0.6
- Beach style: 9.6
- Exposition: 0.6
- Fantasy: 1.2
- Far East & East: 0.9
- Industrial: 0.3
- Later then medieval: 1.5
- Medieval: 3.1
- Modern: 4.8
- None: 4.2
- Not quite buildings: 1.1
- Ruins: 0.4
- Rural: 3.0
- Rustic: 4.9
- Sci-fi: 1.1
- Suburbs: 4.6
- Under water: 0.1
- Urban: 2.2
- Unknown: 11.1
Land destination
- Club/party: 2.7
- Commercial, not shops: 2.1
- For sale, rent: 5.7
- Institution: 1.4
- Not used: 1.3
- Private sandbox: 0.2
- Recreation: 12.8
- Residential: 15.8
- Roleplay: 3.9
- Shops: 4.8
- Unknown: 10.9
Access restrictions
- None found: 41.4
- Themed outfit: 1.1
- Ban lines: 5.8
- Entity orbs: 2.8
- Skybox limited: 2.1
- No access: 8.6