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Re:Minefold (YC W12) Launches Affordable, On-Demand Platform... by beaumartinez on Monday March 12, 2012 @04:48PM (#3695429)
What's with the Google link on the maps? I clicked it on [1] and it took me to somewhere in the sea near Africa!

[1] https://minefold.com/chrislloyd/minebnb

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Re:Minefold (YC W12) Launches Affordable, On-Demand Platform... by Pyrodogg on Monday March 12, 2012 @05:12PM (#3695578)
They're using Minecraft Overviewer[1] to generate the maps. Overviewer uses the Google Maps api to serve the map tiles. It translates the minecraft block coordinates into lat/long coords. It's probably this translation that leads you to 'this location on Google Maps.'

[1] https://github.com/overviewer/Minecraft-Overviewer

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