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David Petrou, who works on Google's book search application (scanning and indexing books), has posted about a new feature which (I assume) uses entity extraction to recognize locations in books. The book search site then provides a mapping of these results where the pins can be used to show the context in which the location was mentioned.
Here are the locations found by Google in the Travels of Marco Polo by Hugh Murray.
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