For people who miss places

The places you love.
Exactly where you left them.

Your hometown. The city you honeymooned in. The neighborhood from your year abroad. Turn any meaningful place on Earth into a Minecraft world you can walk through again.

Build a Place That Matters
Six places people come back to

What you'll actually want to build

Your hometown

The streets you grew up walking. The park behind your childhood house. All of it, perfectly preserved.

The honeymoon city

Paris, Kyoto, Venice — pick the exact neighborhood, exactly as it was mapped the year you were there.

College town

The dorm, the diner, the bookstore you always went to. Walk it again whenever you want.

Year abroad

Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos Aires — recreate the street you lived on down to the real building footprints.

Where you proposed

The bridge. The overlook. The exact square. Minecraft-perfect and permanent.

Grandparents' town

A tiny village that maps apps barely render. OpenStreetMap still has it, and so will your world.

A park and surrounding neighborhood in Minecraft, rendered from real map data

It's the little things that wreck you.

The shape of the park you used to read in. The way the main road bends at the bakery. The corner where you waited for the bus every morning for two years.

OpenStreetMap records all of it — not the paint colors or the signage, but the bones of the place. And when you walk through it in Minecraft, the bones are somehow enough. It hits.

It also makes an unforgettable gift

Wedding anniversary. Housewarming. 30th birthday for the friend who won't stop talking about the semester they spent in Lisbon. $5 and a USB stick, and you're the gift-giver of the year.

Build a Gift

Things people ask

How accurate is a small town compared to a big city?+
Very. OpenStreetMap coverage is community-maintained and surprisingly strong in small towns — especially anywhere in Europe, North America, Japan, and Australia. Building footprints, streets, rivers, and parks are typically all there.
Can I gift this to someone who doesn't play Minecraft?+
You can, but honestly, the gift lands best when the recipient already plays. The emotional 'oh my god that's my old street' hit requires them to open Minecraft and actually walk it. If they don't play, consider pairing the file with a cheap Minecraft license.
What area size makes sense for a meaningful place?+
Most memory-locked places — a neighborhood, a campus, a village — fit in the $2 small tier (under 1 km²). A whole town or small city district fits comfortably in the $5 medium tier. Only go larger if you genuinely want the full metro.
The city has changed. Will the world reflect what it looks like now?+
It reflects what OpenStreetMap looks like now — which is usually current within months. If the block from your memory was demolished or rebuilt, the world will show the current state, not the one you remember. For places that have changed a lot, this can actually be poignant in its own way.
Is there a physical product?+
No — it's a digital world file, delivered instantly. For a physical gift, some users burn the file to a USB drive, wrap it, and include a printed note with the coordinates. Small effort, huge reaction.

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