Ordnance Survey Creates Minecraft Model of Great Britain

First time accepted submitter jeremyp writes "Ordnance Survey intern Joseph Braybrook has created a Minecraft World based upon accurate terrain mapping data of Great Britain. The world accurately represents the whole of Great Britain and surrounding islands (but excludes Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands). It maps 224,000 square kilometres of Great Britain and contains 22 billion blocks. Graham Dunlop (Ordnance Survey Innovation Lab Manager) says: 'We think we may have created the largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data.' The map can be downloaded from the Ordnance Survey."

Comments

Seems to be a concentration of Creepers

[Anonymous Coward]

around Manchester....

Earth Map

[CFBMoo1]

Here's one of the whole Earth at a 1:1500 scale. I'd love to see them regenerate this with the biom updates they currently have in the snapshots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnNbR_PIMJM

http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/the-recreation-of-the-earth-11500-scale/

Re:How?

[Fnord666]

Can you give a glimpse at the process this requires? I assume it has to be algorithmic in some way but it's still baffling to me how it's done. What sort of errors happen?

Absolutely. You can find a good explanation here.