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February 13, 2007
Google Books, Google Maps: hist-mash
Google is digitizing books from University of Michigan. UMich is a founding member of the "Making of America" project, a digital library of 19th century materials. What could make this partnership even better? Google Maps.
Here's an example: take a classic work like "Illustrated New York" published in 1888. Search it for things that look like street addresses, then map those to a street map of New York City. Voila! That's exactly what they have done at:
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC57700799
Check it out.
(and if you find any other books at Google where this has been done, please let me know.)
Posted by hag at February 13, 2007 10:40 AM
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This doesn't worry anyone? I like Google and all, but they may be crossing the line with digitizing books. I like it on one hand, but at some point they're going to have just about all the information in the world, and I can't help but wonder if that's a bad thing.
Posted by: Green Llama 
at March 22, 2007 1:30 PM
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