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Dig It: The British Geological Survey’s Minecraft Britain

Some of you, our dear readers, saw the Ordnance Survey's Minecraft scale version of Great Britain as an opportunity to terrorise portions of this green and pleasant land. Surrounding London with a magma moat was one popular idea, while someone wanted to smash North Ormesby. You are a curious lot. That was only a surface recreation, using the mapping agency's data to recreate the layer…

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Diamond Roads: The UK Remade In Minecraft

I think I'm hovering over Nempnett Thrubwell, a village near Bath that I went on a road trip to after discovering there was a place called Nempnett Thrubwell. I know it's there, because I'm on a Minecraft map that was created by the Ordnance Survey people, and if your job is to make maps then you probably know where all places are. But all I…

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