The Białowieża Forest in Minecraft

by | Jun 27, 2017 | News

The Bialowieza Forest in Poland is one of the last remaining primeval forests in Europe, that covers an area of around 3000 km2 on both sides of the border between Belarus and Poland. To raise awareness of the forest, and to help protect it from excessive logging,...
Life on Mars – Mars in Minecraft

Life on Mars – Mars in Minecraft

by | Dec 20, 2014 | News

How about a trip to Mars? Wouldn’t it be great to view the sun set over your own settlement on the red planet? Or how about taking a stroll in the Gale crater around the original landing site of NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover? For the first time this is now possible in...

Urban planning in Education using Geodata in Minecraft

by | Nov 28, 2014 | News

Over the last six weeks, the municipality of Albertslund in Denmark has developed a prototype of an educational design in urban planning. This was done in collaboration with The Gameworkshop, using Minecraft with real geodata as a platform. The data used are from the...

Vibcraft – Viborg in Minecraft

by | Oct 2, 2014 | News

Vibcraft is now real, live and ready to be used in tourism, urban planning, education and for fun! The whole municipality of Viborg in Denmark has been launched in Minecraft. On a basis of open basic data like terrain models and topography, Vibcraft includes real...

3D City Model from Open Data Aarhus Rendered in Minecraft

by | Aug 24, 2014 | News

Open Data and Open Government initiatives have proven to spark innovation and growth in the private sector. Recently Open Data Aarhus released the Aarhus 3D City Model for the world to download. As a quick experiment GeoBoxers have rendered this model as a Minecraft...