We Can't Build Any 3rd World Countries in Minecraft Right Now. Here's Why

[Duckoo]

As someone from Antarctica, I am personally offended that you could not build my igloo.

[JeDxZZZ]

But let's be real, could a slinky make it all the way down the steps of the Great Pyramid?

[mrspider]

since the project is so popular, it's not that hard to just get some locals to send pictures that might help out
I mean something is better than nothing

[xXJFARGAMERXx]

As someone from Iraq, yes we can't because the internet here is trash. (Like, having 10 mbps internet is considered "good" here, and it costs like 40 bucks a month)

[bigus_brainus]

Honestly, this video just seems like an overcomplicated way of telling us to touch grass

[mattsmocs]

“They will be sending people to the bottom of the sea”

That one didn’t age too well

[grins]

Saying "even big places like India" right after mentioning Africa is just funny to me. It's like saying "Squirrils, Blue whales, and even big animals like kangaroos"

[Tommasso_]

I live in Córdoba (the one from Argentina, not Spain) and it is kinda funny because half the city has 3D and the other half almost totally lacks 3D. Even my neighborhood has 3D (kinda outdated because my house was built after the available images, but not an issue), but the center is totally plain despite being the most densely populated part of the city.

[PotatoCrispGaming]

Building all of Finland: nothing, nothing, nothing, a farm, a town, lake, forest, deer even more nothing and farms even even more lakes and forests.

[ParzivalTheThird]

Bro really said ‘touch grass’ at the end 💀

[annasolovyeva]

@pippenFTS
What can help you a lot with Russia - most bulidings in the Soviet Union were standard. Not just panel houses, but also individual houses in villages (they're normally about 5*5 or 6*6 m log or brick main + a rectangular addition). If you see a small cottage in 2D - that's it.
It means that you need to indentify standard bulidings - and then copypaste them into their places in 2D map.
The rest are either landmarks photographed every year from several angles and easy to find, or big private houses (go ~ 300 sq m and brick, add a tall fence. No one cares), or something secret you'd better just replace with some trees than figure out.
The further away from city/town centres - the more standardized bulidings, it's not architecture, it's rectangle boxes. With any industrial object except for a pipe, bulid concrete rectangle and you're done.
Russian trees are 30 m tall. Minecraft tall spruce does the thing. You also need a similar sized tall thin birch.
Look for USSR Gebshtab maps. They have the terrain.

[lolicanadian]

There _is_ actually 3D map data for many of the larger cities in China on Baidu (essentially the Chinese equivalent of Google), and there's only going to be more and more of it as the tech giant is also developing self-driving cars and needs high-resolution 3d models to develop a navigation system. Don't know if the old SimCity-like 3d models are still there, though.

[OP-peyc]

It's insane how the random clips in the video are literally some place in the earth that they're supposedly going to build one day. Also all the scary places where murders happened and etc. damnn

[Hiboyboy]

I live in a city that doesn't have a 3d scan yet has street view, but it's old. I can go around to the places we build and make a 3d scan of the buildings when I do have the time.

[LiquidBassBrony]

I am a big hiking enthusiast, one thing I think would be ultimately do-able for ppl would be to re-create in some capacity some of the greatest trails in the world. Of course it wouldn't be super detailed, but there is so much footage of things like the Appalachian Trail that I think it could be do-able. Imagine walking the entire AT in minecraft. Would be so cool.

[bagaboiebailey]

Are you aware of Baidu maps (China) and Yandex maps (Kazakhstan, Georgia, Belarus Russia, and more)? They have their own street view (albeit limited), and in certain cases (notably China, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, and Belarus) it is the only way to get 360 street level panorama coverage of those areas (Google doesn't cover them).

[kewlad]

imagine finding your house in this server and finding it accurately decorated and furnished

[gametram]

I fear knowing one day, this project will get a real lawsuit
for now though, keep up the good work!

[pixelqiwi]

Maybe you should try using the local aternatives to Google Maps for those countries, like Yandex for Russia, or Baidu for China, which *does* have 3D.
For Russia though, Google had all the time in the world before the sanctions, and they were simply not interested in 3D mapping anything in Russia, plus their maps are usually minorly incorrect, when it comes to any non-western country.

[mooonns]

Even parts of suburban/rural America don't have 3d