Map your city in Minecraft

Lucy KnightODI Devonlucy@datahatch.co.uk@jargonautical

Aims:

1. Show some examples of useful open data and code2. Think about how to use open data to help solve a problem3. Identify some problems that open data in a game/VR

environment might address

DATA

OPEN DATA

Lidar“A surveying method that measures distance to a target by illuminating that target with a laser light.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar

https://data.gov.uk/dataset/lidar-composite-dtm-1m1

Open Street Map

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.5063/-0.1210

“A collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap

Ventnor project

http://ventnor.totl.net/

https://github.com/cgutteridge/geocraft

More projectsHull

http://www.hullcraft.com/

http://www.ilearninguk.com/hullcraft/

Cambridge

http://opendata.cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/dataset/minecraft-cambridge

Brighton

http://www.brightonscience.com/events/curiosity-hub-minecraft-dinosaur-dig/

Plymouth

https://www.facebook.com/plymouthcubed/

Devon

https://github.com/jargonautical/minecraft-discovery

Minecraft Pi

http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2015/05/interactive-minecraft-astro-pi.html

https://github.com/jargonautical/mcpi

Collecting your own data

https://twitter.com/ribenno