Also, I think that using this might grant the ability to have what is basically Google Earth, but with minecraft, making it the first scale earth that's been made.
Uh, that's not what they're doing.
From the looks of it, areas that are going to be redesigned get reconstructed into a Minecraft map.
This is then edited by people from that area to match what they want.
It's not them building a Minecraft Earth, saying go build whatever you want, and we'll build it in real life.
I suppose the concept comes from a good place, but I don't see how you can get any sort of detail using Minecraft, how you can trust people, and I also don't get where the funds will come from to do reconstruct these places how the people living there want it.
I would agree that Blockland would make a better use for the modelling, since it'smuch more detailed and able to make better structures with it, since Minecraft is just using large chunky cubes, but really, to me, the whole idea sounds a bit silly.
That people are going to redesign these places in a way that is possible, and then it get made.
Also, if they choose poorer areas to change and all, how can they guarantee that all people in the area are going to have computers, let alone minecraft and internet to even access the project?
You can say that it worked in Sweden, but there is a big difference between Sweden and African Nations.
