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Denmark Recreated in Minecraft 1:1

Rejected submission by wantkitteh at 2014-05-01 17:08:16
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A life size copy of the entire country of Denmark has been created within Minecraft and is now freely available to download.

Link: http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Viden/Tech/2014/04/24/082 734.htm [www.dr.dk] (Danish)

"Simon Kokkendorf and Thorbjorn Nielsen Geodatastyrelsen have taken publicly available data on the country — from elevation maps to information about roads and buildings — and translated it into Minecraft game blocks. At the same time the pair introduced a coordinate system so you can easily find a specific point in the model and visit in this way your childhood home, or maybe somewhere in Denmark you have never been before."

The model is available for download from the Danish Geodata Agency in 10km x 10mkm sections here: http://download.kortforsyningen.dk/content/danmark s-frie-geodata-i-minecraftverden [kortforsyningen.dk]

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