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Well I checked out the web bible mapping web site and the ccel web site. The bible mapping site is similar to what I'm thinking but far far simpler than what I was imagining. But could be a valid way of starting...just mark known locations from verses that mention a location. I think I know how to do the GUI, conceptually at least. A really slick tool might be to do like a flash/flex front-end instead of using swing or any of the other standard java toolkits. But that would get away from the free tools. Then again using SWT or even Apples JVM can make so pretty nice GUI's, IMO. <BR>
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I figured it may not be so bad to pull in map data from the java WorldWind project (NASA project, like google). But yes it is defiantly ambitious and I have no idea how much I want or am willing to invest in the effort. Just kicking some more "unique" ideas around. Would be nice if BibleDesktop could out shine logos, then maybe Logos would open up their Libronix format which I believe is a closed standard? Would be great if any piece of software commercial or open source could read Libronix files. The price of logos is so high and with no major commercial competition it seems like it is not as innovative as it could be. <BR>
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But it does seem to me that the real challenge and the most useful thing is the idea of "tagging" meta data to books, chapters, verses, words, or phrases. This technology would be foundational to doing any of the mapping ideas as well as a host of other things it seems. Where would I start to even get requirements for such a huge undertaking? I checked out CCEL but I didn't see anything that jumped out for annotations? Perhaps I missed something?<BR>
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