create minecraft worlds with arcgis and the data interoperability extension

Create Minecraft Worlds with ArcGIS and the Data Interoperability Extension

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What Geospatial use do have in mind for Minecraft?

• 36% - Urban Planning

• 17% - Disaster planning

• 37% - Community engagement

• 27% - Gaming / time wasting

• 28% - What is this Minecraft thing?

Players are placed in a borderless, randomly generated land with no

supplies, directions, or objective. It's up to them to decide what to do. By collecting materials from the world players can ‘craft’ items and build whatever their minds can imagine.

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Source: Ulf Masson (SWECO)

Complex worlds dreamed up by

kids and created in Minecraft.

A 10 Year Old City Planner?

Real-World Value

Education

Reconstructing historical maps

Living in a different era

Simulating natural disasters

Man’s impact on the world (i.e. raising sea levels)

Problem solving

City Planning & Crowd Sourcing

A 10 Year old City Planner?

“Block by Block involves young people in the planning of urban public spaces. Minecraft has turned out to be the perfect tool to facilitate this process.” Source: http://blockbyblock.org/

Having Fun

Live in a new world

Design mazes and rollercoasters

Race across city streets

Make something explode

Explore caves

Appeal to a wider audience

3 Keys:

Make it easy. Make it cheap. Make it fun.

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Project Paves the Way to Open Data

in the Cloud

How to turn reality into blocks

The technical part.

What is Data Interop?

What is FME?

FME Workbench

With FME, write Minecraft from:• GIS: ArcGIS, MapInfo• CAD: AutoCAD, MicroStation• BIM: IFC, Revit, SketchUp• Raster formats• Point clouds• Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server,

PostgreSQL & PostGIS• XML-based formats: KML, GML, CityGML• Spreadsheets and tabular formats: Excel,

CSV

300+ formats

GIS + Rules (CityEngine) to Minecraft

Andrés Nieto Porras

City Engine Results CGA rules

Final Output

The path from CityEngine to MinecraftCityEngine• Prepares the data for conversion to Minecraft by defining

rules• Exports the model to a 3D format for further work in FME

(Esri Data Interoperability Extension)

Data Interop / FME Workbench • Creates the transformation to Minecraft

BIM to Minecraft is fun and easy!

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Output

Input (Revit or IFC)

▪ Map IFC objects to Minecraft block types

▪ Convert each IFC object to Point Cloud

▪ Consider scaling depending on use case

▪ Watch x/y/z position for multiple building worlds

OutputBuilding

Walkthrough

DEM + GPS + 3D to Minecraft

(Easter Island)

Photo: Sarah Twitchell via Flickr

1) Raster DEM - the island

2) OBJ - statues

Source Data

3) Sharepoint - statue locations

Output

Set world size Set blockID Set blockData

Thinking outside the cube

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Linear Network to Minecraft(Railway)

Output

SourceVancouver Skytrain Shapefile

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MazeGenerator

How to Make Minecraft Worlds

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