points by 0x_rs 4 days ago | 0 comments
This is a trivial task for any good model provided with all the tools it needs, and excluding the time it takes to download it from swissALTI3D -- which is the source of the data (heightmap, surface map, subsurface, building 3D models with swissBUILDINGS3D) and is a pretty useful resource for lots of terrain work. Other countries have similar datasets from airborne LiDAR, it's just very well published in Switzerland's case. Most European countries have this data available at similar 0.5m resolutions but coverage may not be as good in some cases. Some individual US states also publish them.
[–] barrkel 4 days ago
[–] 0x_rs 4 days ago
If someone wanted this, and lived outside of Switzerland (where it's sold exclusively, presumably to avoid digital sales headaches), or did not want to pay the equivalent of a monthly subscription for the conversion to Minecraft, that's what they'd do. This could've been a GitHub page with instructions to follow. The dataset does not impose any country restrictions unlike the product.
[–] barrkel 3 days ago
Note that it is also a mod, to support the data model.
[–] lstodd 3 days ago
This is a trivial task for 20 year old ArcGIS release. Or an evening with python 2.4 and some docs on file formats.
Now, back then 1-m resolution DEMs were not widely available, but 10-meters were up for download, freely.
[–] FrustratedMonky 3 days ago
trivial .
Can't tell if you are being sarcastic?
[–] 0x_rs 3 days ago
Why would I be sarcastic? Importing real-world data in whatever format it may be into Minecraft has been a thing for nearly as long as it has existed, either with custom tools, WorldPainter, or the dozen projects on github that do this. swisstopo gives you everything, and there's endless tutorials for what to do with it on YouTube also. You can point an agent at the problem and it will deal with it swiftly and effectively because all resources on this have been extensively worked on or documented. Lately, plenty projects have been working on this, arnismc.com has already been mentioned and seems to be the most ambitious one and freely available.
[–] Introhacker 3 days ago
in an age of endless information, this position can be made across many domains and projects. Just because tools exist to assist with building something doesn't invalidate an accomplishment. H8r mentality
[–] 0x_rs 3 days ago
My comments were all about how this can be replicated by anyone in the world at their own leisure and has been for a long time, and for other countries also, because everything needed is freely available. With some tools mentioned in this thread, it's just the press of a button. Don't conflate that and not caring about the nth project that does this and charges money for it.
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