Google geobooking

Google Book Search is now linking to Google Maps.  I think this is another step in a revolution of mobilizing the data that books contain.

why not visualize places mentioned in books on a map? Now you can. 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

Inside Google Book Search - Books: Mapped - January 25, 2007

via Lorcan Dempsey

Previously:
July 17, 2006  geobooking - books to locations and back