The Ordnance Survey is Britain's national mapping agency, but having already mapped most of the country on paper in its 200-year-plus history, it's turned to Minecraft to recreate the largest of the British Isles.
The world they've created is 22 billion blocks big, correlating to 224,000 square kilometers (86,000 square miles) of British terrain. It's only missing Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man: parts that make up the United Kingdom as a whole, and areas not covered by the mapping agency.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/26/4772306/ordnance-survey-creates-giant-map-of-uk-in-minecraft
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