The intent of this data release is to help children explore Denmark in a virtual environment in class. This is to help Danish children at least to better grasp Danish geography.
’Danmarks frie geodata i en Minecraftverden’ er et demonstrationsprojekt, hvor Geodatastyrelsen vil vise de mangfoldige muligheder i brugen af geodata. Derfor er serveren kun midlertidig. Der vil fortsat være mulighed for at downloade mindre bidder af Danmark på Kortforsyningen efter denne dato.
It is a demonstration project to show the possibilities of geodata. The minecraft server closes 23 of October 2014.
I won't presume that their arguments are completely air tight in regards to its educational usage. But I'd argue that exploring Denmark from a more close up view (than a map) is more appealing to school children. Google's Street View can only go so far.
There is nothing wrong with the intention, the problem is result. I hope I'm wrong, but on my experience of these kind of things is that the popularity is short lived. Soon, some new idea comes along and removes the just implemented old new way.
So using already acquired data and a system to put that data into a game world is a worse use of money than your idea of what.. taking every school child in the country of a tour of the entire country?
Still no. I do silly replies when people assume too much instead of asking first. I todays society people just making up other peoples arguments to fit their agenda.
