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Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds | Nov 2022

That looks great!

It's C# though, so I have no idea how to build this under Linux. I also wish there was a Minetest backend.

Similar: OSM to Minecraft[0][1] (there should be another code drop soon-ish, I heard [2] they plan to move the dev effort to GitHub by the end of the year).

[0]: https://minecraft.ign.fr/

[1]: https://github.com/ignfab-minalac/minalac

[2]: video, in French: https://peertube.openstreetmap.fr/w/cLpfr5jWd9SipjJTDKDPmj?s...

We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft | Oct 2021

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Yes, I've used this in the past, though it can take a while for maps to be generated from their website, and the API is rate-limited. It's quite impressive overall, though it could use some help, especially as buildings are quite bland.

I like the fact that the tool is open source (https://github.com/ignfab-minalac/minalac as pointed by others) and uses OSM.

Screens from the world I generated for Minetest in January 2021 around Lyon, France: https://imgur.com/a/N2gVIeU

It takes a really long time to cross the generated city, even when boosting the in-game speed. That goes to show how much more smaller videogame worlds really are in general, especially when those are walkable.

We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft | Oct 2021

Yep! Although the only place I've found that can download them is through the teacher portal shown in this video.

https://youtu.be/DXJBFHOXZGY

Edit: looks like the source is here and you can use it to output a Minetest map

https://github.com/ignfab-minalac/minalac

We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft | Oct 2021

Code seems to be here (from their twitter feed): https://github.com/ignfab-minalac/minalac