Thursday, March 22, 2007

Geocodes for the Bible

(HT: Justin Taylor)
From the ESV Blog: "The folks at OpenBible.info have geocoded the Bible. In other words, they went through the Bible and found the latitude and longitude of nearly all the places mentioned. They’ve produced satellite maps and KMLs (for Google Earth) for every book in the Bible that mentions a place, and KMLs for every chapter. Even better, all the data and maps are available under a Creative Commons license."

2 comments:

Douglas said...

Is this latitude and longitude information solid or speculative?

Chris Meirose said...

My understanding is that it is pretty solid. There are a few places that the actual location is not known, and they state that.