Such a cool idea: ESV Bible Blog - The Bible and Google Maps. My wife was mentioning something like this the other day: Google Maps has the serious potential to revolutionise education, especially history & geography, but even social science (or HSIE or whatever it’s being called now). Chicago Crime is a perfect example of this, using freely available crime stats (do Australian police forces release any data like this?) to generate a human-usable interface.

The potential is virtually limitless. As I noted earlier, within a day someone had already generated a hack that showed the location of the London Bombings, and the Google Earth program allows users to post custom locations with notes on their forums which are then translated into actual, viewable data on everyone’s copy of Google Earth.

Teachers could clearly demonstrate to students locations, statistics, narratives, etc in a format that easily accessible to the students. Does anyone know of teachers already doing something like this?