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Minecraft game adds Ordnance Survey GB terrain data By Matthew Wall Technology reporter, BBC News
23 September 2013
Minecraft, the cult video game that lets you build and creating monsters, lets you incorporate Ordnance Survey terrain data from Great Britain into your blockwork virtual world.
The game's 33,000,000 players have the ability to create worlds on top of geographically accurate landscapes covering 224,000 km (86,000 miles) of Britain.
Joseph Braybrook, an intern at OS's Innovation Labs, created the GB Minecraft world in just two weeks.
It is based on free OS OpenData products.
"We believe we might have created the most expansive Minecraft world ever constructed using real-world data," said Graham Dunlop, OS Innovation Lab Manager.
"The resultant map demonstrates the massive potential not just to use Minecraft for the purposes of geography and computer technology in schools, but the wide range of applications available for OS OpenData too."
Minecraft was created in 2009 by Swede Markus "Notch" The game is a virtual world made up cubes of different materials like sand, rock and lavas.
Players can work together to build shelters, construct items from raw materials and fight various creatures.
The OS GB world contains more than 22 billion Minecraft blocks.
After downloading the map to Minecraft the players are able to enter the 3D virtual realm through OS's headoffice located in Southampton. From there, they can recreate real-life features such as Stonehenge or imagine buildings like Hogwarts castle.
OS Terrain 50 and OS VectorMap are OS map products that combine to create a 3D model overlaid with features like water roads, woodland roads, and woodland.
Players can design their own structures on top of real-world terrain.
OS is the UK's national mapping authority. Its data covers the mainland and its islands, but not Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man, or Channel Islands.
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