Comments on: Bible Geography Meets Google Earth

By: Ann Porterfield

Ann Porterfield — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:27:46 +0000

This is wonderful! Knowing the geography of Biblical places is so important, I think. I am teaching a Sunday School class, in which this info will help.

Thank you for doing this.

Ann

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:55:17 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:34:01 +0000

This is too cool. Thanks for sharing this.

By: Phil Gons

Phil Gons — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:07:36 +0000

Thanks for the note, Ray. I’m pretty excited about this too. I think it’ll be very helpful to many.

Blessings,

Phil

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:12:25 +0000

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

By: OpenBible.info Blog

OpenBible.info Blog — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:08:30 +0000

[...] Phil Gons writes: “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.” Surprisingly, Google Maps gives a good approximation of the Google Earth experience. The only limitation I’ve run into is that it can’t show a big number of places at once, so larger books don’t show up in their entirety. [...]