This session explores how through the use of FME, Minecraft© gamers can be used to crowd source spatial data for contribution to OpenStreetMap. By enabling FME and FME Server to transform and exchange Minecraft data amazing things can happen.

1. CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
Pushing the Boundaries: Crowdsourcing Through Gaming
Ulf Månsson
Partner Manager Safe Software at SWECO

2. Estimated: 30.000 h of
gaming !

4. Data
Systems
Ideas

5. Steve Johnson notes in "Where Good Ideas Come
From"
that even the most amazing innovations or projects
largely involves combining what we already know
- in a new way!

6. For a 14 Y old
son:
- close to
impossible!

7. 2012
Experiments
-Is there a better
way?

8. Datastreaming JSON
Game server
Game client

12. Contacted in
summer 2013 by
the
Swedish Centre for
Architecture and
Design

13. Vision:
-Exact replica of Stockholm as a canvas for new
buildings
-Topography, hydrography, roads, bridges,
districts, property lines, parks, and squares : 1
block = 1 meter
-Properties assigned to
players

14. Datastreaming JSON
Game server Game client
Stockholm DEM + Map Data
To PointCloud and then JSON
MapData to 3D
Property Borders
Building permit
system

15. Building permit system

16. No building permit system

17. Exhibition opening March

18. Viborg
Hi-Res Sketchup
Indoors and
outdoors

23. Project C.U.L.L.D.
Boulder, Colorado

24. Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 Ulf Månsson, ulf.mansson@sweco.se
 SWECO Position
 http://sweco-fme.com, Twitter:@ulfme
CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.