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Great Britain has been Crafted

  • 24-09-2013 08:20PM
    #1
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,181 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24177844
    "We think we may have created the largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data," said Graham Dunlop, OS Innovation Lab Manager.

    "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."
    (OS = Ordnance Survey)

    22 billion blocks ... this needs a big server. :eek:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #2
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,527 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    A crap stonehenge ruins it :pac:


  • #3
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,181 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    A crap stonehenge ruins it :pac:
    According to the caption, someone added that - it's not actualy part of the map. You could make your own better version if you wanted.

    The OS has their own web page about the map, here. It's a 345MB download that expands to 3.6GB on disk.

    It is just GB on the map - no Ireland, not even the North. I'm tempted to get it, just for the sake of wandering around the landscape.

    RS1386_minecraft-map-of-great-britain.jpg

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Pretty fun but only if you're familiar with certain areas.

    Most is flat of course but some nice peaks at Snowdonia /tp 5474 100 21268


  • #5
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Ponster wrote: »
    Pretty fun but only if you're familiar with certain areas.

    Most is flat of course but some nice peaks at Snowdonia /tp 5474 100 21268

    I wonder I'd I could build my house in London in its exact location. Lol


  • #6
    youreadthat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭youreadthat


    It would be better if it was like half scale or something, instead of just like a large map.


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