OpenBible.Info and biblical geography

This is pretty cool. OpenBible.info has done some “geocoding” on Google maps to placenames in the Bible. Which means you can use their Bible book list (menu) to locate the geographical place names in the Bible. In itself, pretty nifty. But the power of these things lies in opening up the possibilities of what the data can reveal. For example, use a chronological schema to see how the “Biblical World” opens up and widens. Or, do a study of scale and distances, map the importance of routes, compare biblical and modern-day borders and geography, etc. Check it out.