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Minecrafting with OS OpenData
- terabytest 13y agoI wish more screenshots were available of this. The screenshot at the top doesn't really show much.
- citricsquid 13y agoThe person that worked on this posted a comment on reddit (in r/minecraft) and included 14 screenshots (along with some information on the process): http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1mzsf2/ordnance_survey_create_complete_map_of_the_uk_in/cce9hlw http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1mzsf2/ordnance_s...
- galaktor 13y agoimages link: http://imgur.com/a/oZ1iR http://imgur.com/a/oZ1iR edit: removed "m" from mobile url
- aroman 13y agoUnfortunately it really does. I think their primary concern in creating this was to be cartographically accurate -- not pretty by Minecraft standards. To do that they'd have to hack/extend the biome generator I suppose, or take forever by hand.
- outworlder 13y agoOr implement their own "biome" generation. All that a biome is, is that it defines which type of landscape is generated and with which types of blocks. Except for swamp biomes of course, which generate slimes. And desert biomes, which have no rain, or ice biomes, where it snows. But those are almost flags, in the end.
- hownottowrite 13y agoHere's a few I just took: London, Snowdonia, etc. http://jamiegrove.tumblr.com/post/62149228450/screenshots-from-minecraft-uk http://jamiegrove.tumblr.com/post/62149228450/screenshots-fr...
- arethuza 13y agoWow - would love to see what the Cuillin on Skye look like :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuillin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuillin [Arguably the most spectacular mountains in the UK]
- hownottowrite 13y agoSgùrr Alasdair http://jamiegrove.tumblr.com/post/62265934579/sgurr-alasdair http://jamiegrove.tumblr.com/post/62265934579/sgurr-alasdair
- lifeisstillgood 13y agojust got back from PyCon uk - where the education track was a blast. 40+ professional devs using minecraft raspberry pi edition in a dojo format to produce a dozen different approaches for making Mario in minecraft with python scripts. Bank of America even sponsored a quad copter that follows you in real life as you fly over minecraft all this code was happily handed over to real teachers of 11 upwards kids and a school had most of Sunday playing and learning with said professionals anyway the point I am making is this seems like a great add on for the raspberry pi syllabus of learning real computing if anyone from ord survey is on here please get in touch with PyCon organisers (john pinner) or drop me a line
- bayesianhorse 13y agoThe RPi will have trouble with the amount of data.
- lifeisstillgood 13y agothe we can write open sourced features to feed data in from outside servers, to limit flying to within a few miles of the schools, to get kids to map their school playing fields in more detail and build more exact maps that can then be uploaded seriously the pi is amazing. forget the arduino. this is where it's at. (of course only those schools in the uk who still have playing fields can do this ;-)
- sambeau 13y agosigh This is a little bittersweet for me as I once worked on Realtime World's project MyWorld which was rebuilding the world (starting with the UK) to play games in. http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/project-myworld/ http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/project-myworl... Which has now found a new home here: http://www.mapply.com http://www.mapply.com
- lifebeyondfife 13y agoI realised after playing GTA 3 that I knew the streets of Liberty City - it was a real location in my head that I could visualise and navigate. I suspected that playing games in real world locations was going to be a big thing in the future. So I blogged about it http://lifebeyondfife.com/81-real-games-html/ http://lifebeyondfife.com/81-real-games-html/ (I'm not a game developer and had other things to work on). Excited to see others are getting closer.
- tekacs 13y agoThis sort of landscape memory has happened extensively with entirely unrealistic, fabricated worlds too, though (cf. MMORPGs (World of Warcraft) and even games such as DOOM). Surely the fact that there are people out in the real world conversing with one another about places in your fabricated one is a selling point rather than something to be discouraged?
- lifebeyondfife 13y agoOh agreed. Perhaps though because Liberty City wasn't a true fantasy land but a large scale imagining of, essentially, a city made to look like New York, it got me thinking about playing a game in a location I already knew in real life. I could talk about how I love the land of Hyrule, but I'd also like to play a game based in the city streets and countryside of my own country too.
- tekacs 13y agoMm I see what you mean. The Assassin's Creed series might be a step in that direction (they carefully mimicked very old cities rather than modern ones). :) Forgive me if I repeat your blog post - I've only yet skimmed it (due to time).
- tekacs 13y agoThat's a pretty impressively dense save file. For comparison's sake, the MindCrack (full-time professional online Minecraft server with ~30 players and no guest access) server, after a dozen or so months of use came to ~5GB itself! (Minecraft doesn't track historical entities or really much apart from the map block data itself, so the comparison is reasonably fair...)
- tekacs 13y agoHaving said that, the depth of this map appears to be relatively insignificant, with its only substantial co-ordinates being in the X and Z directions, increasing the number of chunks, but keeping them pretty small. shrug
- geitiegg 13y agoFor those who are wanting a higher quality preview of the map, I've setup a Minecraft Dynmap for it over at: http://ordnancesurvey.geit.co.uk/ http://ordnancesurvey.geit.co.uk/ Also, For anyone actually wanting to give this a go in game without having to download the world file, there's also a public server running it on 5.9.102.172 with the tppos command enabled.
- dancecodes 13y agowhy not html5?
- justincormack 13y agoIndeed, they seem to ask you for "Silverlight" for other stuff, ugh.
- dancecodes 13y agodont need ask for something happen
- rmc 13y agoThis is very cool. Now I'm tempted to do something like this with some of the CORRINE land use data from the European Environmental Agency. Make all of Europe in minecraft!
- bananaoomarang 13y agoJust as I saw this story I was working on the same thing in voxeljs :P
- jebblue 13y agoPeople doing things like this is so cool. One guy a few months back made a MC world map, of the world. This one includes roads which takes things up a notch.
- jameshart 13y agoPeople doing things like this isn't cool. You know what's cool? Quasi-governmental mapping agencies like the Ordnance Survey doing it to demonstrate the availability of their open data sources.
- jedicoffee 13y agoI'm gonna let you finish, but Westeroscraft made the best map of all time. Size of South America www.westeroscraft.com
- icesoldier 13y agoThis reminds me of people using tools to generate maps for Dwarf Fortress based on given elevation/biome data. People have made maps of North America and even the whole earth this way.
- Geomancer 13y agoAnyway that we can get a 1:1 scale planet Earth rendered in MC using open geo-spatial data? Challenge: Reproduce the planet Earth to scale in MC. Comment replies please link resources, and we should see something come together.
- hownottowrite 13y agoSide Note: You can get OS Grid data on Wikipedia. Then you can use the conversion tool without the need for Silverlight. http://oslabs.s3.amazonaws.com/convert.html http://oslabs.s3.amazonaws.com/convert.html