We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft
Not directly related to this project but in a similar spirit.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.The page lets you set the precise center and many other parameters such as whether to include buildings or even stylistic options.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).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![1] https://www.ign.fr/[2] https://www.ign.fr/minecraft/