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Author: Louis Erbkamm
Louis Erbkamm is a software developer based in Munich and the maintainer of Arnis, an open source project that turns open geospatial data into playable Minecraft worlds. He works at BMW Group as an infotainment platform developer on automotive wireless services. Outside of work, he enjoys astronomy, experimenting with radio-frequency technologies, and traveling to shoot analog film photography.
Building realistic Minecraft worlds with Open Data on AWS: How Arnis uses elevation datasets at scale
Arnis, an open source tool, transforms real-world locations into playable Minecraft worlds by processing geospatial data hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). By migrating to Terrain Tiles—a global elevation dataset on the Registry of Open Data on AWS—Arnis eliminated data retrieval costs while serving nearly 300,000 users. To make terrain believable at a global scale, […]