Bible Geography Meets Google Earth
The folks at OpenBible.info have done a real service to the Christian community by tagging every identifiable location in the Bible for Google Earth. You can download the KMZ file and explore any place in the Bible. They even give you all of the passages where each location occurs—hyperlinked to the ESV. I love being able to see the places about which I’m reading, and being able to zoom in and interact with them in a 3D environment beats a 2D map or image as far as I’m concerned, though being able to preview and link to these locations in Google Maps is still pretty cool. Here’s an example of all the locations in Galatians. And here’s a neat post that traces the locations in the Bible through six historical periods. I’m hoping Logos will implement my suggestion and use this data to link to these locations from within their software.
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HT: ESV Blog
Update: This blog post gives simple instructions for using the data in Google Earth.
Hi Phil,
Just dropped in from the Logos NG to check things out. I love the Google earth item you mentioned above. I will check out your blog now.
God Bless
Ray
Thanks for the note, Ray. I’m pretty excited about this too. I think it’ll be very helpful to many.
Blessings,
Phil
This is too cool. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks guys. This is a GREAT resource. I love Google Earth and the ability to see the places referenced in the Bible is very helpful.