Google Puts Books on the Map (Literally)
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | January 26, 2007 | Share This
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Google has a new mashup between Maps and Books that shows the geographic locations of your favorite novels. Inside Google Booksearch writes,
“Our team has begun to animate the static information found in books by organizing a sample of locations from them on an interactive Google Map, with snippets of text from the book, and links […]
Google has a new mashup between Maps and Books that shows the geographic locations of your favorite novels. Inside Google Booksearch writes,
“Our team has begun to animate the static information found in books by organizing a sample of locations from them on an interactive Google Map, with snippets of text from the book, and links to the actual pages where the locations are mentioned. When our automatic techniques determine that there are a good number of quality locations from a book to show you, you’ll find a map on the “About this book” page.”
Check out this screen shot from War and Peace:
Discussion:
- Google Mashes Up Books and Maps (Computer World)
- Mapping the Locations Mentioned in a Book (Google Operating System)
- Google Books Integrates Maps (Google Blogoscoped)
Topics: Google |