Diddums 4,346 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Holy shit, this is amazing. Ordnance Survey, the people that map stuff, have recreated GB in Minecraft, to the block. All 22 BILLION of them. Clicky Ordnance Survey, the body responsible for mapping Great Britain from top to toe, have recreated 86,000 square miles of it in Minecraft. The map was built in two weeks by intern Joseph Braybrook and OS's Innovation Labs team using the mapping authority's OpenData products, and can be downloaded to explore for free. Ordnance Survey’s data covers England, Scotland, Wales and their surrounding islands. The resulting Minecraft map incorporates 224,000 of Great Britain’s 229,848 square km. “We think we may have created the largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data,” OS Innovation Lab Manager Graham Dunlop told the BBC. “The resulting map shows the massive potential not just for using Minecraft for computer technology and geography purposes in schools, but also the huge scope of applications for OS OpenData too.” Once downloaded, the map starts new players on the spot of OS’s head office in Southampton. From there, they can make mainland Britain - 22 billion blocks of it - their playground. Using a combination of two programs - OS Terrain 50 and OS VectorMap - the mapping authority has managed to port a 3D model of the earth surface into the game, and overlay it with accurately placed bodies of water, woodland and roads. The entire generation process took about seven hours on a “modest” desktop PC. OS have found equivalent materials for each of the key terrain types in their maps. Motorways are built in diamond, for instance, and B Roads from pumpkin. “Each blocks represents a ground area of 50 square metres,” write OS. “The raw height data is stored in metres and must be scaled down to fit within the 256 block height limit in Minecraft. A maximum height of 2 500 metres was chosen, which means Ben Nevis, appears just over 128 blocks high. “Although this exaggerates the real-world height, it preserves low-lying coastal features such as Bournemouth's cliffs, adding interest to the landscape.” Bloody hell, eh? You can find the map to download here - it’s approximately 3.6GB uncompressed. OS have also provided coordinates for some notable geographical landmarks, including Mount Snowdon, the site of London, and Lake Windermere. Wow. Just wow. Just Cal and BO7H B4RRELS 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chookes 965 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 That's cool. Could have saved some space and just programmed it to not bother with Wales, no one cares about there anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diddums 4,346 Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 Or Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chookes 965 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Just Cal, Racist Giraffe and Diddums 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrison 202 Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Holy shit thats cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Cal 461 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Ho-lee shiz. I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sennex 1,903 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Dude WOW yea, going to give this a go now. By far the coolest themed world ever. Luke 23:34 'And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't think it be like it is, but it do." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sennex 1,903 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 This ended up not being as cool as I wanted it to be :-( Luke 23:34 'And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't think it be like it is, but it do." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrison 202 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 This ended up not being as cool as I wanted it to be :-( Why's that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sennex 1,903 Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 Not really sure to be honest, I think I have grown far to accustomed to the dynamic landscapes that are typical of minecraft, and this wasn't even close. Also the Roads were annoying. Luke 23:34 'And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't think it be like it is, but it do." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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