Minecraft&reg; on Demand – A new IGN service which combines game and 3D cartography

Lecordix, François; Fremont, David; Jilani, Moez; Séguin, Emmanuel; Kriat, Sofiane

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-1-65-2018

Articles | Volume 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-1-65-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-1-65-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 1

16 May 2018

| 16 May 2018

Minecraft® on Demand – A new IGN service which combines game and 3D cartography

François Lecordix, David Fremont, Moez Jilani, Emmanuel Séguin, and Sofiane Kriat

Keywords: Minecraft, Game, Cartography, 3D

Abstract. The French national mapping agency, Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN), decided to develop a new web service, called Minecraft on Demand (www.ign.fr/Minecraft), designed to provide Minecraft maps from the geographic data that IGN produces. This free web service enables the user to select the center of the map and to get a Minecraft world of 5 km long and 5 km wide, at the scale 1 : 1. The player can easily input this map into Minecraft, the world’s most popular video game with 121 million copies sold. Launched in June 2016 in France, the service Minecraft® on Demand obtained a fair success (10,000 maps downloaded), more specifically among young people, since it may enable them to discover IGN data and geography.