Real World Maps - The United States of America - 1:250 scale
Added 2024-08-27 07:08:27 +0000 UTC
This work is a representation of the contiguous United States of America, part of Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Bahamas on a 1:250 scale for Minecraft
Features
Terrain elevation data from NASA DEM 30m (at 1:250 scale, however, it's really smoothed)
Ocean/Sea, beaches, rivers and lakes from OpenStreetMap data
Biomes based on real world land cover data from USGS data
JourneyMap waypoints of the more populous cities in the map for a better exploring experience
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Map images:
List of the biomes used:
Plains
River
Desert
Badlands
Wooden Badlands
Beach
Meadow
Forest
Flower Forest
Taiga
Mangroove Swamp
Swamp
The altitude of the terrain in the real world ranges from 62m to 4500m asl
In Minecraft, the lowest point of the terrain on the map is at 62, while the highest point is at 66, with a vertical resolution of 250m.
Water level is at 62, while the maximum building height is 320.
The spawn point is set to New York City.
Map details:
Map name: United States of America - 1:250 scale
Map size: 21271x14341
Map resolution: 1 block in the game corresponds to 250m in the real world
Minecraft version: tested on 1.20.1, compatible for 1.18 - 1.20.4
Data used to process the map:
NASADEM 30m resolution data for the Terrain Elevation - cubic reinterpolation to 250m resolution
NLCD 2021 Land Cover at 30m resolution data for biomes positioning - cubic reinterpolation to 250m resolution
Open Street Map data for buildings, streets, artificial elements, trees, vegetation, waypoints, coastlines, rivers, streams and beaches positioning - rasterization to 1m resolution
In-game screenshots:
Bugs are always possible, please report them!
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Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/SXvNS8x2pJ
To download the map you have to install a torrent client (for example uTorrent or BitTorrent). With the client you can open the .torrent file and download the map.
For extracting the .7z file, use 7zip or WinRAR.
Google Drive Download Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S_tMrucJPWEUQC4VJCmXXStR6jwSTEY7/view?usp=sharing
Comments
The download link works regularly
AtmosphericBeats
2025-09-13 10:45:17 +0000 UTCyo how do I download this map? the link doesn't work...
RILEY LOE
2025-09-13 07:40:26 +0000 UTCThere's a direct link at the end of the post. Torrent is not needed anymore
AtmosphericBeats
2025-07-31 07:16:55 +0000 UTCdoes it not work anymore? i have a torrent client but nothing happens when i click download
Nicholas
2025-07-31 01:14:51 +0000 UTCCan I get this map on bedrock?
Braydon Connell
2025-03-05 21:36:57 +0000 UTCHey, how can i request a custom map?
Night
2024-10-19 00:41:43 +0000 UTCTo download the map you have to install a torrent client (for example uTorrent or BitTorrent). With the client you can open the .torrent file and download the map. For extracting the .7z file, use 7zip or WinRAR
AtmosphericBeats
2024-09-02 06:01:57 +0000 UTCHey, how do i use this map, the file type seems odd?
Felix Wilkinson
2024-09-02 04:34:08 +0000 UTCThanks so much! Absolutely love your work.
Brett Goodrich
2024-08-28 18:16:22 +0000 UTCBtw I'll probably re-do this 1:250 scale map with magnified elevation in the future
AtmosphericBeats
2024-08-28 17:32:49 +0000 UTCThank you! The height is really smoothed because of the scale, since a block in the game corresponds to 250m in the real world. For this reason the elevation change is not really appreciable. If you are interested in a more detailed map, there's a 1:88 scale map of the USA where the elevation change is way more important, but consider that this one is also bigger: https://www.patreon.com/posts/real-world-maps-104793649
AtmosphericBeats
2024-08-28 17:32:14 +0000 UTCLove this so much! If I might ask, why is the height squished so much? Is that essentially natural, given the scale? I'd love to see a version with significantly magnified height, such that you can get a sense of the water features across a state. Amazing work!
Brett Goodrich
2024-08-28 13:52:04 +0000 UTC
