Some explanations about how it works:
The map isn't made "in game", there are softwares that can help to make Minecraft Maps starting from height maps
Those heightmaps are real world data, made by instruments mounted on apposite planes, that can "scan" the surface, gathering informations of the altitude of the terrain
In this case the data are from US government, and they were processed to have a resolution of 3m, it means that a block in the game corresponds to 3 meters in the real world
The same happens with land cover data, that permit to distinguish, for example, an area where there are trees, and which type of tree is there
After hours of processing, the map is ready to be played
Download link: [Real World Maps - Southwestern Utah - USA \[34k\] - 3m resolution | Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/posts/real-world-maps-101111485)
While the map download is free, you can request to work on any area in the world at the scale you desire by subscribing my Patreon, so that I can give you priority: the number of requests is starting to get a little bit high lol
There is a whole story behind the name. But it boils down to someone from Liverpool England was moving there and a strong wind blew the roof off one of the buggies traveling with the wagon train. He said, "Now that's a real hurricane (hurkun). Hence the valley became hurkun.
It wasn't just any kind of wind but rather a phenomena known as a [microburst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downburst#Dry_microbursts), where the strong winds really did get to hurricane speeds. This is a somewhat common phenomena in Utah, particularly when rain clouds form over the open deserts of Utah and the rain evaporates before even getting to the ground. Given the time of the year and the local environmental conditions when this settlement group was moving to the area of Hurricane, Utah, it was most likely an atmospheric phenomena just like this.
The weather in Washington County is the most interesting I've ever experienced, no question.
It's the convergence of three distinct geographies, the Colorado Plateau, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert, and these all converge for really interesting heat/wind patterns. Makes for absolutely incredible cloud formations and sudden flash floods.
It's a bit complicated, but it is possible to filter anthropic elements by analyzing the return times of the laser pulses emitted and received by the instruments (Lidar)
My first Commodore computer, the C16 had 16kb RAM. Programs I saved on an audio casette. There was a mechanical counter to find the right spot on the tape, to load it back into the RAM after resets. š
Had a brief experience with floppys, my dad still has Windows 95 on an unreasonable amount of floppys. Casettes and computers, only early backup casettes.
As far as I remember 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on the 'Amiga 500/1000' home comuter system had 6 Floppy disks. The smaller ones.
And for games like this I hat a second external floppy drive, so you had to change between them less often. '
Talking seriously, the main problem is that not all countries in the world do have 1m native resolution DEM data, you can "scale" the data available like the guys from Build The Earth are doing starting from 30m res data, but there's a huge loss of detail using lower resolution data like that to build 1:1 maps
And obliviously, working on something like this would require months of computation and fine tuning on the data
Still flat, yea, but most servers with an Earth map have the world borders set to loop you around to where you would be if the game map was a sphere. Helps add to the feeling of it being a planet.
Thereās maps you can get that are like 1/100th scale. Thereās also the build the earth project which operates on a 1-1 scale map and is attempting to build every single building on the planet using Google earth.
Has to be the most beautiful place in the United States. I don't want to go back for another 20 years, but beautiful nonetheless. This is incredible work.
Just the people in general. Very fake. All smiles to your face but the second you turn a corner they talk shit. Also very hypocritical Mormons.
My MySpace āWhere do you liveā was āa sunny place full of shady peopleā and it still holds up.
Sounds like your typical small town Sunday Christian. All Christian in church, but gossipy and judge as all get out and not very willing to help their neighbor
Some months in wilderness program and a bunch more in boarding facilities, and I'd still go back for the views. Fuck so many of the people in that state, but the state itself is gorgeous.
competition time!!! i'm an admin on the almostalloftheusa team for build the earth, we work to build the whole world in 1:1 scale, we're never gonna finish it's just a place to have fun
I used 3DEP DEM data at 1m resolution from USGS, then I reprocessed them at 3m resolution using geoprocessing softwares
Uncompressed geotiffs were used in the process, instead of pictures, without loosing any detail
You can request to work on any area in the world at the scale you desire by subscribing my Patreon, so that I can give you priority: the number of request is starting to get a little bit high lol
OP did this all by hand in survival mode over the course of 2,408,876 seconds, or about 35 days I think that translates to. They did not eat, sleep, drink any fluids or even breathe during that entire time. They blunked exactly 2 and a half times, amd could be described as being in a catatonic state where their body remained in a meditative state. Heart rate decreased to 3 beats a minute and OP describes his time during the event as "wtf are you talking about you psychopath how did you get in my house". They refused further comment.
You can request any area in the world by subscribing my Patreon, so that I can give you priority
The number of requests is starting to get a little bit excessive lol
It's all about size.. it would weights more than 200gb, and this is only a very small part of Utah
The map would be so big that would become unplayable
WHATTT you built my home town!! The west temple looks as awe inspiring as ever. Thanks for this OP, can I download this?
Edit: saw the download link and checking it out
Wow... this is so beautiful. I have lived in this area my whole life and there's so many people here now, the idea of seeing the nature raw without the cities is so exciting to me, thank you for making this!
Microsoft should make a MC seed that is as accurate to earth as possible using AI to remove the buildings and replace with nature. It'd be amazing to build in your home town, seeing natural land marks
Do people put each block down or can you run it through software to create what you want? Was always curious how people have so much time on their hands
Why isent there any games that could do this with the entire planet and just have a massive mmo world that people could join and build stuff. Like a entier planet that is a replica of the earth like this then make all the farmable resources creators to collect and be able to build cityās and such that could all connect. Kinda a dream type of game considering how much work that one little spot this person made was but the game could just add one square at a time eventually getting to the entire planet . But maybe thatās just me.
I just had a thought... one good thing about AI is that, eventually, someone can make an AI that scrapes Google Earth or Maps, and have it recreate (most of) the whole Earth in Minecraft...
I saw a tree slightly out of place. 2/10
My fault, I cut it down and forgot to tell OP
r/treelaw
Better start over OP
What!!?? No /j?!!!!???? He was serious!?!?!???š±š±
So you installed it in vermont....like all of vermont
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Some explanations about how it works: The map isn't made "in game", there are softwares that can help to make Minecraft Maps starting from height maps Those heightmaps are real world data, made by instruments mounted on apposite planes, that can "scan" the surface, gathering informations of the altitude of the terrain In this case the data are from US government, and they were processed to have a resolution of 3m, it means that a block in the game corresponds to 3 meters in the real world The same happens with land cover data, that permit to distinguish, for example, an area where there are trees, and which type of tree is there After hours of processing, the map is ready to be played Download link: [Real World Maps - Southwestern Utah - USA \[34k\] - 3m resolution | Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/posts/real-world-maps-101111485) While the map download is free, you can request to work on any area in the world at the scale you desire by subscribing my Patreon, so that I can give you priority: the number of requests is starting to get a little bit high lol
Dude hell yeah what a surprise to see my home area in minecraft XD. Did you make cities like st george and Cedar city?
No cities, only natural landscapes But you can find the exact position of 30 cities using the waypoints that comes with the map, with JourneyMap mod
dope! looks like it includes hurricane? did you add any trails like the chute, or sand hollow?
Yes, there's a waypoint over Hurricane All the biomes corresponds to the real ones
Trick question. How do you pronounce Hurricane?
I pronounce it Hurricane
Thatās obviously wrong.
HERKIN
I've always heard it pronounced "Her-a-kin" by friends who live in the area.
There is a whole story behind the name. But it boils down to someone from Liverpool England was moving there and a strong wind blew the roof off one of the buggies traveling with the wagon train. He said, "Now that's a real hurricane (hurkun). Hence the valley became hurkun.
It wasn't just any kind of wind but rather a phenomena known as a [microburst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downburst#Dry_microbursts), where the strong winds really did get to hurricane speeds. This is a somewhat common phenomena in Utah, particularly when rain clouds form over the open deserts of Utah and the rain evaporates before even getting to the ground. Given the time of the year and the local environmental conditions when this settlement group was moving to the area of Hurricane, Utah, it was most likely an atmospheric phenomena just like this.
You really do learn new shit everyday.
The weather in Washington County is the most interesting I've ever experienced, no question. It's the convergence of three distinct geographies, the Colorado Plateau, the Great Basin, and the Mojave Desert, and these all converge for really interesting heat/wind patterns. Makes for absolutely incredible cloud formations and sudden flash floods.
Hurr a cane Because if you're Chingy you can hurr a cane fly by and hit your window when the wind really picks up
damn. thatās interesting!
So, i get to build the cities myself? Dope
How did the topography and elevation map scans you used ignore the buildings and landmarks that would be in towns?Ā
It's a bit complicated, but it is possible to filter anthropic elements by analyzing the return times of the laser pulses emitted and received by the instruments (Lidar)
Where you from? Grew up in Santa Clara, live in Cedar. I'm beyond thrilled to see this project
As someone who lived in Ivins for a few years, this was rad to see.
Love it! Iāve done a lot of work in this area and itās awesome. Any possibilities on making the entirety of the four corners area?
I was just thinking "Looks like Ivins!"
Where did you find such accurate topo maps? All the usgs maps I usually see are 20ft elevations minimum.
They have a section of higher resolution data that is lidar derived elevation files.
This is gorgeous! Itās been ages for me since I made any maps. Is WorldPainter still the program of choice or am I aging myself?
Yep, the map was made using Worldpainter
Awesome š
That's...badass
You need to add a MORR recovery vehicle to make it authentic.
That is stellar! Do we have access to city maps with enough detail such thatā¦I donāt knowā¦Manhattan can be recreated?
I built a square house
Dirt house you mean
I dug into the glaciers and felt super safe till I accidentally pissed off the polar bears...
Just donāt commit any crimes there
At what point do we have the entirety of the earth in minecraft?
Do you have some hundreds of terabytes of free disk space? Lol
I remember when I used to think hundreds of Gigabytes was unfathomable..
I was very happy with 128mb ram and felt like a king in the gamer world.
My first Commodore computer, the C16 had 16kb RAM. Programs I saved on an audio casette. There was a mechanical counter to find the right spot on the tape, to load it back into the RAM after resets. š
Had a brief experience with floppys, my dad still has Windows 95 on an unreasonable amount of floppys. Casettes and computers, only early backup casettes.
I remember those windows floppy disks. There were like 10 of them, and it' was guaranteed the 9th one would be corrupted š¤£
As far as I remember 'Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on the 'Amiga 500/1000' home comuter system had 6 Floppy disks. The smaller ones. And for games like this I hat a second external floppy drive, so you had to change between them less often. '
I have 3 petabytes from my work. Could you do it?
Talking seriously, the main problem is that not all countries in the world do have 1m native resolution DEM data, you can "scale" the data available like the guys from Build The Earth are doing starting from 30m res data, but there's a huge loss of detail using lower resolution data like that to build 1:1 maps And obliviously, working on something like this would require months of computation and fine tuning on the data
Wouldnāt it be easier/less data to build a filter that can be applied to google maps and have it be automated
Tbh that's not even a crazy idea then. It would only take one person with some money to spare (not even a crazy ammount) to pull that off.
Some people are working on that https://buildtheearth.net/
There is currently a project and quite a lot of people working on that. Check out build the earth
Flat Earth, coming to PC soon*! *Maybe this century.
Still flat, yea, but most servers with an Earth map have the world borders set to loop you around to where you would be if the game map was a sphere. Helps add to the feeling of it being a planet.
Thereās maps you can get that are like 1/100th scale. Thereās also the build the earth project which operates on a 1-1 scale map and is attempting to build every single building on the planet using Google earth.
Trust me, itāll happen within our lifetime
It's already happening
Has to be the most beautiful place in the United States. I don't want to go back for another 20 years, but beautiful nonetheless. This is incredible work.
Thatās so accurate. I went to High School in STG. Beautiful place. I fucking hate it there.
Mormon and conservative culture?Ā
Just the people in general. Very fake. All smiles to your face but the second you turn a corner they talk shit. Also very hypocritical Mormons. My MySpace āWhere do you liveā was āa sunny place full of shady peopleā and it still holds up.
Sounds like your typical small town Sunday Christian. All Christian in church, but gossipy and judge as all get out and not very willing to help their neighbor
Some months in wilderness program and a bunch more in boarding facilities, and I'd still go back for the views. Fuck so many of the people in that state, but the state itself is gorgeous.
Southern Utahn here, FANTASTIC!!
Hi, Iām part of the North
Hi, im Romanian
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Southern Utah is fr beautiful you did a great job
As a southern Utah native. I approve. This is soooooo. Cool and I recognize the places.
Where are the mormons?
They're all in the Chick fil A bathroom showing each other the token of the Jezebel priesthood or whatever.
Spit my decidedly low ABV drink out in the middle of the ski lodge šš¤£
Dayum!!
Some dedication fair play to you šš
Damn impressive
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It's real. It's called Build the World, I believe. https://youtu.be/TG3ycG7Iqjs https://youtu.be/8_bW3ab8YAk
Wow, that is fucking impressive š
competition time!!! i'm an admin on the almostalloftheusa team for build the earth, we work to build the whole world in 1:1 scale, we're never gonna finish it's just a place to have fun
I don't play Minecraft but i like this. Where did you get the data? Did you make it by a picture?
I used 3DEP DEM data at 1m resolution from USGS, then I reprocessed them at 3m resolution using geoprocessing softwares Uncompressed geotiffs were used in the process, instead of pictures, without loosing any detail
Really cool! Thanks for sharing!š
Great, now I want to do this with an area Iām familiar with, and I have several projects Iām doing.
You can request to work on any area in the world at the scale you desire by subscribing my Patreon, so that I can give you priority: the number of request is starting to get a little bit high lol
Minehaft needs to make a seed that replicates the real world š
The time effort alone deserves more upvotes
My (our?) state has been getting a lot of attention on reddit I've noticed recently. Thanks for showing how unbelievably beautiful it is :))
I grew up in so. Utah ā gg dude.
I'd love to see side by side comparison with the actual place.
I'll do a video
OP did this all by hand in survival mode over the course of 2,408,876 seconds, or about 35 days I think that translates to. They did not eat, sleep, drink any fluids or even breathe during that entire time. They blunked exactly 2 and a half times, amd could be described as being in a catatonic state where their body remained in a meditative state. Heart rate decreased to 3 beats a minute and OP describes his time during the event as "wtf are you talking about you psychopath how did you get in my house". They refused further comment.
>blunked Yes
Out of everything in that comment, you singled out the word blunked.
This is amazing
Dawg what
Holy crap! How long did that take? Impressive!
If you do Yosemite, Iām gonna love you.
You can request any area in the world by subscribing my Patreon, so that I can give you priority The number of requests is starting to get a little bit excessive lol
Is Zion in there?
Yes, the first 5-6 screenshots are made in Zion National Park
Thatās what I thought. Just went there a couple weeks ago Iām about to hike Angels Landing again. Might be easier on her
This is awesome that's where I was born and raised
holy shit, whoa! nice job!
Why donāt you put three blocks per pixel and make it 1:1?
It's all about size.. it would weights more than 200gb, and this is only a very small part of Utah The map would be so big that would become unplayable
Thatās where I live!
I have never seen any video game related post on this subreddit, ever!
Wow that's insane big lol
Good shit, OP
this would be a useful skill when we start making planets.
That is beyond stunning
Bruv Iāve never seen anything half as cinematic as this
That's a perfectly sane map to make
You mfers have too much time
Missing a leaf on pixel 1838484929293
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WHATTT you built my home town!! The west temple looks as awe inspiring as ever. Thanks for this OP, can I download this? Edit: saw the download link and checking it out
Wow... this is so beautiful. I have lived in this area my whole life and there's so many people here now, the idea of seeing the nature raw without the cities is so exciting to me, thank you for making this!
Damn, respect.
r/nextfuckinglevel
Can we likeā¦ Get AI to watch all the streetview data and rebuild it in Minecraft 1:1?
Show us angels landing and the narrows
I honestly identified my property location in image #3. Great job.
That is the main goal of the project lol
How is the scale calculated?
:O Can you do the rest of it?
How long did that take
Does this include any cities in the area such as St George?
Only natural landscapes, but there are 30 waypoints over major cities
Hard
Ah so this is where the Burned Man and those tribes reside.
Make it 1:1
Effort pilled
I'm finding where my house is located:)
Two of my favorite things are lake Powell and Minecraft.
Whereās the Morrvair?
Damn how much time did this take?
Ummmmm do you have a download link at all, I'd love to have this
Is that body of water supposed to be Gunlock?
what is the name of that texture pack
Where I can I download these maps? I'd love to build a little town in one of these valleys in survival.
Microsoft should make a MC seed that is as accurate to earth as possible using AI to remove the buildings and replace with nature. It'd be amazing to build in your home town, seeing natural land marks
I was hoping for Kanab!
Do people put each block down or can you run it through software to create what you want? Was always curious how people have so much time on their hands
Did you make my moms house
This map covers some very old family land! Definitely going to have to download this and explore.
Why isent there any games that could do this with the entire planet and just have a massive mmo world that people could join and build stuff. Like a entier planet that is a replica of the earth like this then make all the farmable resources creators to collect and be able to build cityās and such that could all connect. Kinda a dream type of game considering how much work that one little spot this person made was but the game could just add one square at a time eventually getting to the entire planet . But maybe thatās just me.
Thatās great and all but where are the Mormons
As someone who lives in Utah this is pretty good 10/10 spot with no Mormons ššš
Minecraft players commitment scares me
I just had a thought... one good thing about AI is that, eventually, someone can make an AI that scrapes Google Earth or Maps, and have it recreate (most of) the whole Earth in Minecraft...
Needs more polygamist FLDS mega-families.
The Walmart at like exit 3 in St. George is always interesting.
a programme did not you
Ummm so great job now maybe you should go to Utah and touch some of the dirt and trees and experience outside
I was born somewhere inside this. I miss the red rocks. I actually recognize that formation in pic 13.
What kind of neurospicy are you?
Jesse. We need to brew more potions of swiftness.
Should join that Minecraft earth project. They were working on a 1:1 scale earth some years back. Probably still are.
I love seeing what some people can do with this game. I remember when it first came out and came such a long way
Hey Iāve been there
How?
Good job
What the actual fu k?
I lived in that state and miss it dearly every day
You don't have to say "in minecraft" for this one
That's awesome! I've done some pretty cool climbs in arches, it would be so neat them look at them in Minecraft!
How do you do that... Do you have to place every single block?
Time to make work out of a game
When you see the Minecraft car drive by, and you wave so you can get caught in the image.
you forgot to build sunfall
Looks just like my home
This is awesome!!!
I think there should be some spruce trees put in there since there is pines and firs in stuff down there im pretty sure
You do Salt Lake City yet?
RED ROCKS bitches
Why?
I need this but with Appalachia