Protected land

Since I've been in SL, visits to mainland have been short and I haven't done a lot of exploring on them. Going to a specific landmarked place, sure, but beyond that, very little seeking.

Tonight I found a Linden road and followed it and noticed that I was on protected land. My understanding of protected land is that it is just that - it's protected and not even supposed to be built on. Yet, there were so many ad farms that I was appalled, and a few buildings.

Am I incorrect in my understanding of protected land?

Protected land shouldn't allow building on it, but building right next to it on privately owned land is fine. Along the road is a common location for dense clusters of ad farms.

Sad

What is maintenance land?

The protected land near my place is no-build, has auto-return set, is no-damage, and is no-push. However, it does allow object entry and scripts. I think this is pretty typical. I think this is typical and think it's a generally good set of options. It does make it impossible to rez your car so you can drive down the road though.

--Hugsy

That's land that has for whatever reason reverted to Linden ownership (usually by being abandoned by the owner, or their pre-paid year of premium ran out and they didn't renew it, so any land they had became abandoned.)

The Linden road near my land is in the Maintenance group. I assume this is what you mean. I can't say for sure what it is but I'm guessing it's land that requires some degree of building/maintenance. This would be, for example, land that has, or should have, roads and where people can make requests like "please remove roadside wall so I can make a driveway". It would be also be, as Solomon said, abandoned land.

This is opposed to the full water sim north of me that's not in the Maintenance group.

--Hugsy

Cool. By following the road, I moved from seeing ad farms near protected land to a few beautiful sims including where they held the Linden snowball fight. Worth the excursion

Cool. Please don't be discouraged from exploring the mainland. Yeah, there's ugly junk/ad farms, ban lines, overzealous security scripts, and other crap, but there's also some really nice places.

--Hugsy