The Danish Geodata Agency has mapped out all of Denmark for Minecraft and released it to the public. Yes, all of it. In a 1:1 scale.
I haven't been able to find any articles in English about it, but for those who can read Danish, here's one and another. You'll need to be able to speak Danish to join the server, and TNT blocks have been disabled. The individual map segments are available from here, but I think you need to be a Danish citizen to access the files.
Still, this is both awesome and silly. But I can see this being somewhat useful for getting kids/young teens to be interested in geography, so it may have some educational purpose.
So, yeah. This actually happened.
I haven't been able to find any articles in English about it, but for those who can read Danish, here's one and another. You'll need to be able to speak Danish to join the server, and TNT blocks have been disabled. The individual map segments are available from here, but I think you need to be a Danish citizen to access the files.
Still, this is both awesome and silly. But I can see this being somewhat useful for getting kids/young teens to be interested in geography, so it may have some educational purpose.
So, yeah. This actually happened.