We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft
Not directly related to this project but in a similar spirit.<p>Recently, while exploring france’s national geography department (Institut de Géographie Nationale [1]) website, I came across a page [2] which allows anybody to download a Minecraft world representing any 25km^2 area of France.<p>The page lets you set the precise center and many other parameters such as whether to include buildings or even stylistic options.<p>The maps are generated on the fly and make use of a combination of the department’s own datasets (digital elevation, road networks, land parcels, building dimensions and height, and even forests).<p>I wish they would release whatever code they use for the terrain generation as I’m sure the open-source community would enjoy extending it with OpenStreetMap data!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ign.fr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ign.fr&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ign.fr&#x2F;minecraft&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ign.fr&#x2F;minecraft&#x2F;</a>