Denmark Made 1:1 Replica of Itself in Minecraft.

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Yes, you read that right. The Danish Geodata Agency decided to create a 1:1 replica of the entirety of Denmark, buildings and street lamps included. The map is approximately 1TB (yes, 1 terabyte) in size and contains approximately 4,000 billion bricks. You can "download Denmark" if you have the space from their website, and...I dunno, be Danish I guess.

The Minecraft version of Denmark consists of about 4000 billion bricks. Simon Kokkendorf, an employee at the Danish Geodata Agency came up with the idea to use at as a teaching tool, and built it its surface area by incorporating the agency’s 3D elevation model into the game. Kokkendorf and his colleague Thorbjørn Nielsen then added more details like houses, lakes, rivers, lamp-posts, roads, and railways.

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EDIT: A quick edit, it appears the download site will let you choose a 10km square area in Denmark that you can download, so you don't need to grab the entire 1TB map, you can instead grab a city or some other area.
 

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I've always thought of the scandinavian were smart, wise, bright people...... know I will always think of them as fucking losers...




in all seriousness what a waste of the tax payers money.
 

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So it's two guys using an already built elevation model to generate a world, then tweaking it so it includes the finer details in order to create the largest 3D map ever?

That's actually very fucking nice. And to those complaining on Denmark's wasted tax money...just exactly how useful is your own work compared to that?


Christ...I've visited museums/theme park about models of Antwerp or Europe (picture google mini Europe to see) that ALSO took a lot of time, effort and "wasted tax dollars euro's". This is project just DWARFS all that effort. And rather than praising it for being a prime example on how games actually benefit society, you criticize it because you fail to see the potential. :angry:
 

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rather than praising it for being a prime example on how games actually benefit society, you criticize it because you fail to see the potential. :angry:


I'm impressed with the work, although from day 1 I have never seen the point of minecraft. :-P
 

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Whats with all the people hating on Denmark?
Denmark and Sweden are quite big on arty things and when it comes to something new or untried they have a "sounds so crazy it could work! Lets do it!" attitude.

who doesn't love denmark girls? >:C
 

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