Google Maps Typography

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Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I’ve spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms. These are the results of my findings limited within the state of Victoria, Australia.

Links: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z

Posted in: General  ·  Apr 15    

Elif Sengul said,

April 22, 2009 @ 8:01 am

This is brilliant!! A great topic for research profitting from the wonders of Google Maps! Congradulations! Greetings from Istanbul, Turkey.

Nicholas Kormas said,

April 25, 2009 @ 8:42 am

this is just amazing…

did you keep records of the co-ordinates by any chance?

just wait till the “geo-caching” community get hold of it :)

cheers,

nick.

JP said,

May 10, 2009 @ 5:52 pm

Brilliant!
Unfortunately, I only have time to read about somebody taking the time to do this type of stuff and then posting a quick comment stating that I wish I had the time to do this type of stuff.

PB said,

May 27, 2009 @ 1:15 am

This is brilliant!! A great topic for research profitting from the wonders of Google Maps! Congradulations! Greetings from Istanbul, Turkey.

mike said,

June 30, 2009 @ 12:42 am

Love this, a great new perspective on typography, it’d be cool to see this in a practical outworking, be interesting to see how it could be made relevant to an advertising campaign.

Ashley Adams : Postcard Printing said,

July 5, 2009 @ 10:26 pm

An interesting post on the whole. It’s a lovely view from the top, eh? Who knows, if we had the time look harder and further, we might find whole words sprawled across terrains! Now, that would be fun, right?

walt said,

July 20, 2009 @ 4:38 am

Nice, but this has been done before in 2006.

http://www.designlooksnice.com/Antwerp2006.html#

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucasnijs/155376566/

discount web design said,

September 3, 2009 @ 12:48 am

Thanks for such excellent post. Really informative blog. Keep the good work here and i wish you all the best and success.

egypt web design said,

November 8, 2009 @ 5:17 am

wow its so amazing thanks for the excellent post.

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