Map of Minecraft in Britain, created by Ordnance Survey

Is work of artillery survey to map every inch of the country, to assist in creating a richly folded maps. It must be assumed that already have done that. Britain's only so big after all. That could explain why they had enough free time to do this: recreate the entire country in Minecraft, using blocks of over 22 billion to map the land, roads and rivers.

Don't worry, the map of fans. The project was undertaken by Joseph Braybrook intern, who, in collaboration with the innovation team Labs of OS, brought on a 3D model of the country block-building sandbox. As a result, the rest of the Agency were free to concentrate on their stated goal of making increasingly accurate top designs of Daventry.

"We think we could have created the world of Minecraft largest ever built based on real data," OS Innovation Lab manager Graham Dunlop told the BBC. "The resulting map shows the huge potential not only to use for computer technology and Minecraft geography in schools, but also the huge flow of applications for OS OpenData too."

The OS OpenData project page describes the process of crushing of Britain into a Minecraft map format:

"Each block represents an area of land of 50 sqm. The rough height data is stored in meters and must be resized to fit within the limit of 256 block height in Minecraft. A maximum height of 2500 metres was chosen, meaning Ben Nevis, appears little more 128 blocks high. Even if you overdo the Royal Highness maintains coastal lowland features like cliffs of Bournemouth, adding interest to the landscape. "

As a result, specific blocks had to be chosen to represent the characteristics of the map. Built up areas appear as bricks, highways are diamonds, gold, a-roads and B-roads are pumpkins. Just like in real life.

Download and install the map files 3.6 GB, and you can get to the HQ of OS in Southampton. Alternatively, just wait: the map is intended to become the basis of more than a few multiplayer server, which provides an easier way to scrounge around the land and fill it with more detailed recreations of various landmarks. Or with nobs.

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