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 ...

You may remember when Britain's Ordnance Survey recreated the entirety of the country as a Minecraft map. That was all well and good if, for some reason, you wanted to explore its top soil in a ...

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 ...

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.

Forget Street View. Save some money on your next European vacation and travel to the U.K. via Minecraft instead. The popular video game now includes accurate Ordnance Survey terrain data of Great ...

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.

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 ...

British governmental mapping company Ordnance Survey has re-created the entirety of Great Britain in Minecraft using real-world data. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ordnance Survey, the organization responsible for maps of Great Britain, has created a new map of the country using Minecraft. The world consists of more than 22 billion blocks representing 200,000 ...