Gutenkarte: Geo annotation of Gutenberg texts

Another “wow” from Where 2.0: Schuyler Erle demoed Gutenkarte, a fabulous site
that uses Metacarta‘s geo
text mining engine to link classic works from Project Gutenberg
to accompanying maps. How often have you read a book and
wondered about where it took place and how long it might have taken to get from here to there? Schuyler’s demo,
showing Thucydides’ classic The History of the
Peloponnesian Wars
, accompanied by a map showing the
locations mentioned in the text, suggests how useful MetaCarta’s
technology is in automatically adding geo-annotation to texts.

 

Gutenkarte is build in part with Openlayers.org, Metacarta’s open source toolkit for associating a map with any web page.