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Britain in Minecraft

Postby Tirian » Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:03 pm

Create Minecraft worlds starting with the British Ordinance Survey (I.e. their USGS-style topo maps): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24177844
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Re: Britain in Minecraft

Postby Zancarius » Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:28 pm

Given the extensibility of Minecraft, somehow this doesn't surprise me, but it's still impressive as all get-up. Someone should start the process of mapping the remainder of the world using satellite data. After all, the hard limit of a Minecraft world is (according to the wiki) 4,722,366,482,869,645 square kilometers which should be more than enough (due to the limits of floating point arithmetic on the JVM--actually a limit of the IEEE 754 float/double definition).

That map is frickin' awesome, and I'd love to see it extended.
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