256k Mapping Project
The 256k Mapping Project was a community-driven effort to archive a 256,000 x 256,000 block area of the Minecraft server 2b2t. The project resulted in approximately 1.1 TiB of world data collected over nearly a year by dozens of contributors using automated clients.
I acted as one of the primary contributors and project lead, coordinating work across contributors while also developing several of the project's core tools and visualizations.
My contributions included:
- Developed the primary spiral exploration tool (Minecraft Forge mod) used to download world data.
- Coordinated contributors through a shared planning system that tracked ownership and progress of mapping regions.
- Developed the interactive version map and generated large-scale visualizations of world generation history.
- Produced animated timeline visualizations showing how the world expanded across Minecraft versions.
- Java
- GDAL2Tiles
- OpenLayers
- Data processing
- Visualization
