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Great Britain's Geology with Minecraft
- supermatt 12y agoWhy "Create chunks using the height data to add blocks repeatedly up to the desired height using the real world geology for that location" instead of simply adding the top two blocks? It seems unnecessarily wasteful of resources considering there is absolutely no value in the 'below the surface' geology in this demo. Other than that, neat! Can't wait to look for my neighbourhood when i get home :)
- djent 12y agoIf I had to guess, having [mob cap] number of bats spawning and flying around underground might be laggy. It also might compress smaller.
- comrh 12y agoI think because: "In reality the geology varies with depth, like cake layers, and BGS is working on representing the arrangement of the rocks and sediments in the form of a 3D geological model. Watch this space!"
- VikingCoder 12y agoCan someone decipher this to tell me what the scale is? Oh, it looks like it's copyright. Just became much less interesting...
- jpitz 12y agoThis looks relevant (???) http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/using-creating-data-with-os-products/os-opendata.html http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/lice... It seems to imply a fairly open license that requires only attribution. I don't really know UK law however.
- icegreentea 12y agoActually, I don't actually see a copyright notice on the actual minecraft product. I haven't downloaded the actual zip (I don't have minecraft at work!), and maybe there are additional claims there, but the copyright string on the page is simply the required acknowledgement for the original Ordinance Survey data under the Open Data license that you linked. Note that the Open Data license does not require that your products based on the data be open as well, just that you acknowledge the source. The Minecraft world is built by the British Geographical Survey, not the Ordinance Survey.
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