{"id":289,"date":"2007-02-13T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/02\/13\/google-books-google-maps-hist-mash\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T15:40:31","slug":"google-books-google-maps-hist-mash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/02\/13\/google-books-google-maps-hist-mash\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Books, Google Maps: hist-mash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is digitizing books from University of Michigan. UMich is a founding member of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hti.umich.edu\/m\/moagrp\/\">Making of America<\/a>&#8221; project, a digital library of 19th century materials. What could make this partnership even better? Google Maps.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an example: take a classic work like &#8220;Illustrated New York&#8221; 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&#8217;s exactly what they have done at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?vid=OCLC57700799\">http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?vid=OCLC57700799<\/a><br \/>\nCheck it out.<br \/>\n(and if you find any other books at Google where this has been done, please let me know.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is digitizing books from University of Michigan. UMich is a founding member of the &#8220;Making of America&#8221; project, a digital library of 19th century materials. What could make this partnership even better? Google Maps. Here&#8217;s an example: take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2007\/02\/13\/google-books-google-maps-hist-mash\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}