Danish government builds Minecraft world of Denmark from geodata

Translation:<p><pre><code> The Geodata Agency&#x27;s data is now free, and we have inserted them into Minecraft. That means that the whole of Denmark proper is now available as a virtual world in 1:1 in Minecraft itself, so you can freely move around in Denmark, find our own neighbourhood, construct and deconstruct like in any other Minecraft world. On this page, you can read more about the free data in the Minecraft world, and how you get started playing or download the free data. </code></pre> According to this page[0] the map is divided into three regions, each which has their own server:<p><pre><code> * Northern Jutland: server1.gstcraft.dk * Southwestern Denmark: server2.gstcraft.dk * Eastern Denmark: server3.gstcraft.dk </code></pre> [0] <a href="http://www.gst.dk/emner/frie-data/minecraft/spil-her/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gst.dk&#x2F;emner&#x2F;frie-data&#x2F;minecraft&#x2F;spil-her&#x2F;</a>

I have to say that I am quite impressed by their work. I spent 30 minutes earlier, walking around in the neighborhood where I grew up, and it was extremely easy to navigate and recognize roads, houses, and large buildings.<p>Even the train tracks through the city were there as rails in Minecraft (although not fully connected and working).<p>Very cool, the guys at GST did some amazing work here.. But as far as I can tell, there is no way to download the full 1TB world?

I&#x27;ve long been surprised that real-world places weren&#x27;t modelled more often in minecraft (and fps games).<p>My tentative conclusion was it might be too helpful for e.g. actual shooting. Though, height data is generally available anyway (e.g. google maps&#x27; &quot;terrain&quot;, council planning databases), just not as easy to work with.

Even if this is a minor &quot;show-off&quot; project, it&#x27;s a good reminder for the power of open data. Location services, emergency planning software, tons of other stuff benefit enormously from this kind of openness.<p>[Crazy fun idea]:Basically, given Denmark&#x27;s open geographic data one could potentially build an MMORPG which takes place in Denmark and have the terrain pre-generated. I think I would call this one Hamlet: The revenge.

I&#x27;m wondering how they did it? Is there some kind of converter to transform GEO data to Minecraft Worlds?

Didn&#x27;t Mojang already do this? <a href="http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Superflat" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;minecraft.gamepedia.com&#x2F;Superflat</a>

On the Denmark minecraft server someone has placed nazi insignia all over Amalienborg (Warp there to see).. I think the server admins should have made it impossible to break and place blocks...

If they included Hans Island in this, any canadians are obliged to go there, build an inukshuk and leave a bottle of canadian whiskey for our Danish friends - i mean enemies! ;) - who happen by. see also : <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4797368" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npr.org&#x2F;templates&#x2F;story&#x2F;story.php?storyId=4797368</a>

I&#x27;d love it if we could get things like this for the moon, or Mars, or deep sea Earth.<p>And I&#x27;d really like 3D printed toy models of Mars or Moon too - I haven&#x27;t found anything that does this.

building whole cities and landscapes by putting together small bricks piece by piece? would be surprised if they were not all over it in DK, the land of lego.

Is there a way to download the maps rather then connect to the servers? I keep poking around but it&#x27;s not jumping out at me..

I never really got into minecraft, do people just mine and build things or do you actually have a story&#x2F;things to complete?

just yesterday I was searching for publicly available administrative geodata of European countries. it&#x27;s not an easy task due to language barriers and fragmentation. Does anyone know where to download the source data of this project?

What a waste of tax payer money.