An awful lot of comprehensive geographical, topographical and geological data about Great Britain has been compiled and compressed on computers. And for decades, nobody knew quite what it was for.

What a wonderful thing this is. Stuffy old Ordnance Survey, best known for creating the maps you used to use before your phone did it much better, has created an absolutely vast Minecraft map of ...

Minecraft players looking for a little realism in their gaming sessions now have all of Great Britain to explore in the game. The British Geological Survey created an accurate geographical map of over ...

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Ordnance Survey, the body responsible for mapping Great Britain from top to toe, have recreated 86,000 square miles of it in Minecraft. The map was built in two weeks by intern Joseph Braybrook and OS ...

Close your eyes and imagine, if you will, the entirety of Great Britain in Minecraft. Now, open your lovely windows back up and head below, because it is not imaginary at all, but an actual thing.

The UK's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey (OS), has released an upgraded Minecraft map of Great Britain, adding detailed buildings, trees, rivers and roads to the digital overview. The first ...

Is there anything that hasn’t been recreated in Minecraft yet? Washington D.C, what appears to be the plane crash from LOST and Westeros from Game of Thrones are just a few locations that have been ...

Survival & Crafting Overhauling Minecraft's world generation was like 'trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools' which basically scared Mojang off of continuing massive yearly updates Survival & ...

There are ambitious Minecraft projects, like Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise and recreation of Westeros, from Game of Thrones, but those all pale in comparison to the latest effort. The Verge has a ...