LE CONCOURS VILLES ET TERRITOIRES DE DEMAIN AVEC MINECRAFT® À LA CARTE.

The National Institut of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN) has developed a new web service, called Minecraft® on Demand (www.ign.fr/mine craft), designed to provide Minecraft® maps from the geographic data that IGN produces and diffuses. This free web service allows the user to select the center of their map and get a Minecraft® world around this place. The player can load this map in Minecraft®, the best-selling video game with 176 million licenses sold worldwide in May 2019. Launched in June 2016 in France, the Minecraft® on Demand service has been a success (51 000 cards downloaded from the beginning until May 2019), especially to a youth audience, allowing them to discover IGN geographic data in their familiar gaming environment. This service was recently used by the Ministry of Social and Territorial Cohesion for a national contest designed to imagine and build by the participants the cities and territories of tomorrow (2050), meeting criteria of sustainable development. The results obtained were posted online in February 2019 and the laureates designated in April 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]