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Anchorage City and Columbia Glaciers, Alaska, USA - 42k - 1:5 scale

Added 2024-04-18 09:05:11 +0000 UTC

BIG NEWS! All the roads and the buildings in the map are now available in-game!

Welcome to my new project! This work is focused on a small area of Southern Alaska, including Anchorage city and Columbia Glaciers, with a resolution of 5 meters per block.

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That's possible thanks to OpenSteetMap data, where all the buildings and roads polygons can be exported to layers that can be used in Worldpainter

All the buildings currently have a fixed height of 4 blocks, please consider this feature as highly experimental. I'm working on giving them a real height in the next projects

The position of biomes is entirely based on real land cover data, as done in the previusly released maps, but in addition to land cover data Open Street Map data was also used to get the best possible coastlines, rivers and streams

Map info:

Anchorage is located in the U.S. state of Alaska and is surrounded by some of the most beautiful glaciers in the world. In fact, there are 60 glaciers within 50 miles of Anchorage. Alaska has the nation’s greatest concentration of glaciers; approximately 100,000 of them cover nearly 30,000 square miles.

The Columbia Glacier is one of the most notable glaciers near Anchorage. It descends from an icefield 3,050 meters (10,000 feet) above sea level, down the flanks of the Chugach Mountains, and into a narrow inlet that leads into Prince William Sound in southeastern Alaska.

List of the biomes used:

Plains
River
Beach
Meadow
Forest
Flower Forest
Taiga
Swamp
Jagged peaks
Frozen Peaks
Windswept Gravelly Hills
Ocean
Deep ocean

Altitude map

Biomes Map

More than 40 JourneyMap waypoints of major cities and villages are available, making the exploration of the map way more easier!

Map details:

Map name: Anchorage and Columbia Glaciers - 5m
Map size: 48556x35860
Map resolution: 1 block in the game corresponds to 5m in the real world
Map files size: 37.0gb uncompressed, 25.2gb compressed
Minecraft version: 1.18+

Data used to process the map:

USGS 3DEP Alaska 5m DEM
NLCD 2018 Land Cover data for biomes positioning at 30m resolution - cubic reinterpolation to 5m resolution
SRTM15+ Bathymetry data - cubic reinterpolation to 5m resolution
Open Street Map data for CITIES, ROADS, waypoints, coastlines, rivers, streams and beaches positioning - rasterization to 5m resolution

Bugs are always possible, please report them!