Enter the geo-referenced, electronic novel 

OK, I've seen tons of interesting uses and applications using google maps and the gMaps aPI but this one may take the cake as the coolest use to date - a geo novel! Enter the Google Maps Novel.. no, it's not about google or maps but rather, this interesting e-book incorporates google maps within the story and within the novel.

Click through the pages and see the story's location get updated on the left page. As you move along in the story you also move along on the maps... this is very interesting, innovative, and down-right cool! I just wish I could read German so I could follow along with the story.

Congrats to the author! See the novel Senghor On The Rocks From a report in The Age... "The geo-novel is an adaption of a book written by Benda, a former advertising copywriter now working at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is based on his travels in the African nation of Senegal."

geo-located novel using google maps

As you read through the book your google map on the left page updates to reflect the location of interest i the story line