{"id":707,"date":"2013-01-17T21:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T01:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2013-01-17T21:16:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T01:16:17","slug":"street-view-through-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/street-view-through-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Street View through Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google yesterday announced that they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/discover-israel-on-google-maps.html\">expanded their street view functionality throughout Israel<\/a>, including a number of sites that you&#8217;d visit on any tour of the Holy Lands. Of particular note are the archaeological sites they walked around and photographed. Here, for example, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?ll=32.585525,35.185544&#038;spn=0.531693,1.003189&#038;cbp=12,267.89,,0,9.37&#038;layer=c&#038;panoid=Cq0N-XIqPmpMLQC0L6zxAw&#038;cbll=32.585525,35.185544&#038;t=m&#038;z=11\">Megiddo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?cbp=12,267.89,,0,9.37&amp;layer=c&amp;panoid=Cq0N-XIqPmpMLQC0L6zxAw&amp;cbll=32.585525,35.185544&amp;t=m&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=32.585525,35.185544&amp;spn=0.531693,1.003189&amp;z=11&amp;source=embed&amp;output=svembed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?cbp=12,267.89,,0,9.37&amp;layer=c&amp;panoid=Cq0N-XIqPmpMLQC0L6zxAw&amp;cbll=32.585525,35.185544&amp;t=m&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=32.585525,35.185544&amp;spn=0.531693,1.003189&amp;z=11&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Previously available were many places in Jerusalem, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=31.780441,35.234034&#038;spn=0.001897,0.007837&#038;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&#038;sspn=32.885543,56.601563&#038;oq=%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%9C+%D7%94%D7%9E&#038;hq=%D7%94%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%9C+%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99,+HaOmer+2+Street,&#038;hnear=%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9D,+%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C&#038;t=m&#038;layer=c&#038;cbll=31.780439,35.234032&#038;panoid=KuePK6RwrclDfSWRnsY0aQ&#038;cbp=12,265.8,,0,-1.54&#038;z=18\">Via Dolorosa<\/a>. But the new imagery covers much more area&#8211;I can imagine it being particularly useful in Sunday School and classroom settings, where a semi-immersive environment communicates more than static photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/bibleandtech.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/touring-israel-in-google-street-view.html\">Biblical Studies and Technological Tools<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google yesterday announced that they&#8217;ve expanded their street view functionality throughout Israel, including a number of sites that you&#8217;d visit on any tour of the Holy Lands. Of particular note are the archaeological sites they walked around and photographed. Here, for example, is Megiddo: View Larger Map Previously available were many places in Jerusalem, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}