Comments on: Google Earth Typography

Google Earth Typography

parudox — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:26:25 -0800

The alphabet in satellite imagery of Slavonia. [via]

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:43:24 -0800

Crafty and well done! I'd be amused to see something like this in place of captcha letters.

By: Askiba

Askiba — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:44:03 -0800

Haha! Neat! It's strange, but that kind of artistic ingenuity always brightens my day. Say, they should make a whole series of these for different countries. It would be excellent. I'd do it, but I can barely read a non-satellite map, let alone analyze and find letters in Google images.

By: parudox

parudox — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:36:26 -0800

Looks like the same thing was done earlier for Victoria, Australia.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:41:59 -0800

I'd like to see this in IPA. In chart order. Including Clicks and Diacritics and all the good stuff. It'd be cool if the pictures came from all over the world. That would make my nerd heart really happy.

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:19:18 -0800

Google Earth alphabet, another Google Earth alphabet, human alphabet, beard alphabet (previously).

By: FatherDagon

FatherDagon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:14:18 -0800

So, what is that giant pit used as the 'O'? I see the key references it to Vukovar, which is apparently a Croatian town with a pretty rough history. Searching for 'Vukovar Hole' or 'Vukovar pit' tends to pull up references to the 'death pit' at the nearby Jasenovac concentration camp from WWII, but I doubt that could be it... could it?

By: parudox

parudox — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:42:00 -0800

That 'O' doesn't look terribly sinister to me.