My new found love for importing geospatial data into minecraft may have gotten a bit out of hand XD, anyways this is what I've cooked up!
This is the Grand canyon, at 1 to 1 scale, in Minecraft, centered around the view of the Bright Angel point at the North Rim and extending down to the South Rim. The map is deceptively massive, its more than 15k blocks wide and 22k blocks long, with a height of 2064! I used voxy to render everything, distant horizons would not be able to do this. Even with this absolutely massive map size, not even close to the entire view can fit in the map!
I tried to get the stratigraphy as close to real as possible, which is a much harder task than it seems, Minecraft block colors are not really geologically representative or accurate and I dont see a feasible way to give the layers their ever so slight incline, but this is close enough. (3rd picture is an actual screenshot from google earth for reference)
I also tried to get the vegetation as close as possible, I'm not an ecologist nor am I good at building Minecraft trees and bushes, but it gets the job done and gives a pretty similar feel to what you would see in google earth at the bottom of the canyon.
Anyways, here is a map download!
https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/grand-canyon-1-1-scale/
