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Subject: RE: Biblical maps and Bible Lands
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:05:24 -0500
From: Geoff Forbes <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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CC: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
Hi, Rick--
I cannot answer your specific question--the List's map librarians will
no doubt do that--but I thought you'd be interested in a previous thread
on GIS and the Bible (below).
Also, I recommend a simple but very helpful book of transparencies
(which I like to think of as "the original vector data") that allow you
to see maps of ancient bible lands overlaid with modern day boundaries,
called "Then and Now Bible Maps" which you can find on the following
site (and they have lots of nice pull-down classroom style maps of the
Holy Land, etc., too):
http://www.wall-maps.com/bible/Then-And_Now_Bible_Maps.htm
Geoff
Geoffrey A. Forbes, M.S.
LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping LLC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Forbes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 3:30 PM
To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
Subject: RE: Biblical/ancient world map software package?
Dear Jeremy,
A couple of years ago, some kind soul informed the list of the following
website, entitled "Bible Geocoding: The location of every identifiable
place mentioned in the Bible."
Geonames are listed in the order they appear in the Bible (listed book
by book). And the producer of the site did us the wonderful favor of
creating .kmz files of all of the places for viewing in GoogleEarth
(which are then of course also easily converted to common GIS software
file formats). Here's the link again:
http://www.openbible.info/geo/
Best regards,
Geoff
Geoffrey A. Forbes, M.S.
LAND INFO Worldwide Mapping LLC
Tel: +1.763.428.4129
Fax: +1.303.790.9734
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Subject: Biblical/ancient world map software package?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:08:04 -0500
From: Jeremy Donald <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Hi,
I have a faculty member in Religion with the following question: "Do you
know of a package or software with maps of biblically related things and
the ancient world more generally?"
Some in-house suggestions are http://www.bibleworks.com/ and
http://www.logos.com/basepackages
Does anyone recommend other products or have any opinions about these two?
Thanks!
Jeremy
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Subject: Biblical maps and Bible Lands
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:05:52 +0000
From: Rick Grapes <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi all,
Does anyone out there have a nice list in their libguide, or know of
individual sites for that matter, that deal specifically with biblical
maps, and or maps of the bible lands? I guess this could also include
subjects dealing with the middle east ancient and modern, the
Mediterranean region, the Roman Empire, ancient Egypt etc. Old and New
Testaments. What I’m aiming to do is add a Biblical Maps, or Bible
Study Maps section to our libguide. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
Talk to you soon,
Rick Grapes
BYU Map Collection
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