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Ordnance Survey recreate Great Britain in "largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data"

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 ...
Hexus

Ordnance Survey maps Great Britain in Minecraft

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 ...
ZDNet

Ordnance Survey mash-up takes on Google Maps

OS mapping data to be released to developers... The Ordnance Survey (OS) is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mash-ups. Dubbed OpenSpace, the ...
ZDNet

Ordnance Survey challenges Google

Ordnance Survey, the UK's national mapping agency, is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mashups. Dubbed OpenSpace, the project will initially ...
PCGamesN

Ordnance Survey upscale Minecraft map of Great Britain to be "more realistic"

The Ordnance Survey have updated their already-massive official Minecraft map of Great Britain to include rail links, trees and local roads. The British mapping agency have doubled the map's scale - ...
Computing

Ordnance Survey: There’s a (m)app for that

Geospatial data is hot property, and with more than 200 years of experience, Ordnance Survey (OS) is a world leader in its collection, organisation and dissemination. In combination with other data, ...
Diginomica

Ordnance Survey and the nine-second server

Ordnance Survey has moved to all-flash storage to support its extensive use of virtualization, delivering improved stability and reduced performance issues with its main database. Due to the move, the ...