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Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world
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Louis Erbkamm knows his way around Arnis, the smallest town in Germany, but he’s never set foot in it.
Key facts
- Louis grew up playing Minecraft and started coding at 13, always looking for ways to bring code into the game
- Louis suggests a place you know, like your hometown or somewhere memorable you’ve been, such as the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls
- Louis Erbkamm knows his way around Arnis, the smallest town in Germany, but he’s never set foot in it
- When Arnis added elevation, its worlds stopped being flat, and geospatial specialists from all over showed up with ideas on how best to integrate it
Summary
Arnis is also the name of his open source project, which takes real-world data from OpenStreetMap and other sources to turn places you know into Minecraft worlds you can freely explore. Louis grew up playing Minecraft and started coding at 13, always looking for ways to bring code into the game. That first version was Python written by hand, built only on OpenStreetMap, and generating a town took a while. Arnis has a lot of buildings, it has streets, it has waters, it has all kinds of different elements that are useful to test with.