What a wonderful thing this is. Stuffy old Ordnance Survey, best known for creating the maps you used to use before your phone did it much better, has created an absolutely vast Minecraft map of ...

British governmental mapping company Ordnance Survey has re-created the entirety of Great Britain in Minecraft using real-world data. Minecraft players have created some pretty darn amazing stuff in ...

Earlier in the week, those crazy cats at the Ordnance Survey office released the whole of the United Kingdom (sans Northern Ireland and some other bits) as a giant, 3.6GB Minecraft map. Here's our ...

The Ordnance Survey have updated their already-massive official Minecraft map of Great Britain to include rail links, trees and local roads. The British mapping agency have doubled the map's scale - ...

Minecraft players looking for a little realism in their gaming sessions now have all of Great Britain to explore in the game. The British Geological Survey created an accurate geographical map of over ...

No audio available for this content. Great Britain’s Ordnance Survey announced a team developing ideas for future products and services at Ordnance Survey has created a map of Great Britain in the ...

Close your eyes and imagine, if you will, the entirety of Great Britain in Minecraft. Now, open your lovely windows back up and head below, because it is not imaginary at all, but an actual thing.

The UK's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey (OS), has released an upgraded Minecraft map of Great Britain, adding detailed buildings, trees, rivers and roads to the digital overview. The first ...

Minecraft's biggest 'real' world so far has been forged by map-making body Ordnance Survey. They've mapped out 86,000 square miles of Great Britain in just a fortnight. See it here. The BBC reports ...