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DOWNLOADS

THE EARTH 1:500 The full size image can be found here. The size of the complete map is 51gb unpacked and 35gb packed. The zip archive...

14. October 2020
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COORDINATE CALCULATOR

Click here (external link) to find the longitude and latitude of the place where you want to go and copy these values into the form. Select your scale...

22. September 2020
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TILESELECTOR

This is the basic program you need to export the various scripts.

19. March 2020
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INSTALLATION

To create a Minecraft map using this method, several steps are necessary.

19. March 2020
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QGIS

With the program QGIS it is possible to project OSM data, shapefiles and GeoTiff files on the correct coordinates. There are also many options for how...

27. February 2020
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HEIGHTMAP

There are some publicly available height maps, probably best known is SRTM of Nasa. The problem with this map: the land areas are only covered between...

20. February 2020
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GRAND CANYON

Here a small interactive map of the Grand Canyon in scale 1:50 (horizontal) and 1:25 (vertical).

7. February 2020
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TERRAIN

I made some progress for the terrain generation to get rid of the checkboard pattern.

6. February 2020
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HOW TO GET OSM DATA

In this blogpost we will have a deeper look into the first part of the automated script, called “osmconvert.bat”. In this batch file, the OSM data...

5. February 2020
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ABOUT THE SCALES

As mentioned in my previous blog post, it will be possible to choose between these different scales:

30. January 2020
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