Private Land Geography Research
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: 42.2%
- Divided by mountains: 5.1%
- Divided by objects: 4.4%
- Divided by parcel lines: 13.3%
- Divided by roads: 4.0%
- Divided by water: 14.6%
- Unknown: 16.5%
Geographic type
- Artificial & skyboxes: 5.1%
- Hills: 11.5%
- Mountains: 13.2%
- Plain: 22.8%
- Plateaus: 9.2%
- Tropical beach paradise: 18.0%
- Water: 3.8%
- Unknown: 16.4%
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: 19.6%
- <40% water: 41.0%
- ~50% water: 13.9%
- >60* water: 9.4%
- Complete flooded: 1.3%
- Unknown: 14.7%
Ground texture
- Covered ground: 4.9%
- Designed special: 0.8%
- Empty ground: 4.0%
- Grass: 49.8%
- Sand: 23.9%
- White: 0.6%
- Unknown: 15.9%
Vegetation
- Colored plants: 3.9%
- Dead plants & desert: 0.3%
- Forest: 12.0%
- None: 19.7%
- Parks: 2.4%
- Small plants: 3.4%
- Temperate, not forest: 15.4%
- Tropical: 23.3%
- Water submerged plants: 0.8%
- Unknown: 18.8%
Building style
- Advertise (large): 5.3%
- Advertise (small): 5.2%
- Antiquity: 1.0%
- Beach style: 15.5%
- Exposition: 1.0%
- Fantasy: 1.9%
- Far East & East: 1.5%
- Industrial: 0.5%
- Later then medieval: 2.4%
- Medieval: 5.0%
- Modern: 7.8%
- None: 6.8%
- Not quite buildings: 1.8%
- Ruins: 0.6%
- Rural: 4.9%
- Rustic: 7.9%
- Sci-fi: 1.8%
- Suburbs: 7.4%
- Under water: 0.2%
- Urban: 3.6%
- Unknown: 18.0%
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