Map of the Week: London Typographica showcases crowdsourced images of lettering and typefaces around London. It uses styled maps to both provide a clean background to display their markers and to allow people to navigate to areas they may want to explore.[src]
via Google Geo Developers Blog - love the concept, and the execution of the map itself. Also a big up for having made an app for gathering the images directly with geocoding included. They have even made two different styles for the map, overriding the default google zoom detail levels.
What i miss as a user is some sort of guidance - a path or five through all the images.
- How do I find all the A's?
- Where are all the serifs?
- The block fonts?
- The signs rather than the street art?
Apparently, there is something in the works - or at least the idea is there - one image had this;
Tags: lettering, caps
So, I'll check back in another couple of months (GGDB post from Dec-12), and keep playing with my little statue location info app.
