18 May 2011
Google Maps Typography
“Finding Typography in Google Maps Aerial Photographs”
googlemapstypography

This is pretty cool. Aussie artist Rhett Dashwood spent about six months, poring over Google Maps, to compile this landscape alphabet. Some ‘letters’ work better than others, and I reckon it would work better with more instantly recogniseable landmarks. But nonetheless, another one of those really simple ideas to file under "Why didn’t I think of that?"

Link-o-tron [with the locations of each ‘letter’]

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TAGS: typographygoogle mapsgoogle earth

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE: 18 May 2011

AUTHOR: stíobhart matulevicz

LAST MODIFIED: 25 Apr 2020  — REASON: "extract asciidoc preamble into separate file and include it"

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