For example, I know that Terah and Abram's family moved from Ur to Haran. I'd like to see a map that depicts both Ur and Haran, and ideally a rough route plotted from the former to the latter. Not that we know what route they family took, but just to get an idea of the relative distance and direction they traveled.
There are plenty of maps that already have such routes drawn on them for specific journeys mentioned in Scripture, like Paul's missionary trips, etc. But it would be great if Logos could locate any two random ancient cities on a map together and show the approximate route between them. In other words, automatically generate a lovely route map like the ones that are so painstakingly manually put together by editors of Atlases. Kind of like Google Maps navigation for the ancient world.
It would also be great if you could type in two city names and have Logos tell you the distance between them (along normal/expected routes, not as the bird flies), again the way Google Maps can do. I'm thinking again of Abraham and his migration. Trying to prepare a talk and wanting to help people understand just how massive a move that would be for them. I'd love to have this as really quick way to find that distance. The current only method is to open up the Atlas, find one or the other of the cities, visually scan the surroundings to find the other one, and measure the distance (as the bird flies) using Ctrl+drag. Too cumbersome, and in many cases not possible under the present Atlas. For example, I search for Ur and find its approximate location marked on this map. But Haran is nowhere to be found on this map, so I can't measure the distance between them.
And I can find Haran on this map, but Ur is nowhere to be found, so I can't measure the distance. I just want to be able to type something like "locate Ur to Haran" in the command bar and have Logos do the legwork: show me a map that depicts both cities on it, with the distance and route marked.
Perhaps this is a pie-in-the-sky feature, but I like to dream big.
