Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's mapping authority, has produced maps of the island for more than 200 years. Now, it has swapped paper for Minecraft blocks in its latest mapping project.
The mapping organization used 22 billion Minecraft blocks to comprise 86,000 square miles of British land.
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Players start at Ordnance Survey's head office in Southampton before starting to explore the island. Players can add their own recreations of landmarks — real ones, such as Stonehenge, as well as imagined ones like the Hogwarts castle.
The map is nearly built to scale. Its only inaccuracies come from the map's maximum height of 2,500 meters, so certain locations are capped.
The map was built using free-to-use OS OpenData products, Ordnance Survey reports.
Graham Dunlop, innovation lab manager at Ordnance Survey, said in a statement that the mapping idea started over the summer when the team learned one of its interns, Joseph Braybrook, was an avid Minecraft fan.
Dunlop said it took Braybrook only two weeks to create the Minecraft world.
"The resulting map shows the massive potential, not just for using Minecraft for computer technology and geography purposes in schools, but also the huge scope of applications for OS OpenData too," he said.
Minecraft players can download the map now.
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