I've been working on a Bible atlas using openstreetmaps. The goal is to give folks a better idea of where different events spread across thousands of years in the Bible intersect in some of the same geographical places. It also aims to give an idea of how they line up with modern locations.
It is very much a work in progress and still has a lot of AI slop, as I've been making it with an agent. As you find issues, keep me posted. Otherwise, I hope that you get something out of this.
Cool, I love this. I'm mostly interested in how you sourced and structured the underlying data.
Initially, I pulled locations straight from openstreetmap, but have been modifying a few based on coordinates that seem to be more consistent across more diverse sources. I had my agent make up a document explaining exactly what we took from OSM, but I wanted to polish it a little before including on the site, and I’m not at that computer right now to share. I’ll try to remember to post it here.
The other data is almost all public domain stuff scraped from the web. I really wanted to use NASB for the scripture quotes, but apparently it’s not public domain. That’s why I’m using the other translation with external links to the NASB.
There’s plenty that I need to clean up. Search I. The site for Gomer. 🤦♂️ That city definitely doesn’t have anything to do with Hosea’s wife of the same name.
Mapped Jacob and Easu estate?
It's definitely got many sites of Israel and Edom and a number of the sites of events from the lives of Jacob and Esau.