Kelston as Minecraft, by Leigh Dodds

This is insane. You can now fly from Bath to Kelston in the visual idiom of the online building game that every child and gamer is currently obsessed with. Leigh Dodds has created in Minecraft this visualisation based on Ordnance Survey digital map data. If I’ve got my bearings right the Roundhill is in our sights at 1:17.

Last month Leigh (see his blog DataSulis) won a BathHacked award for his pollutant levels visualisation (I missed that event; I couldn’t even manage to get the date right, let alone the data).

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