Britain in Minecraft
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:03 pmCreate Minecraft worlds starting with the British Ordinance Survey (I.e. their USGS-style topo maps): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24177844
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.