Preparation of the Future with Minecraft&reg; on Demand

Lecordix, François; Kumarasamy, Sivakavi; Da Graca, Fernando; Kriat, Sofiane

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-72-2019

Articles | Volume 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-72-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-2-72-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 2

10 Jul 2019

| 10 Jul 2019

Preparation of the Future with Minecraft® on Demand

François Lecordix, Sivakavi Kumarasamy, Fernando Da Graca, and Sofiane Kriat

Keywords: Minecraft, Minetest, on Demand, Future, Education, Contest

Abstract. The French national mapping agency, Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN France), launched a new web service in June 2016, called Minecraft® on Demand specifically for young people. This free web service is designed to provide Minecraft® maps with the raster and vector geographic databases that IGN produce on the French territories. This new service was recognized by different community: scientific, young people, French ministry. Different statistics allow analyzing the success obtained since 3 years. The new using of Minecraft® on demand for national contest to imagine the future and for education is presented.