article_snippet: The shapes can be spotted in satellite images and include buildings shaped like the letter 'A', trees planted in the shape of an 'E' and circular marks in the landscape that resemble 'Os' or zeros.
article_snippet: A pair of designers has created a tool to help seek out these natural and manmade shapes and is hoping to use the findings to develop software as well as a new font.
article_snippet: German designer Benedikt Groß and geographer Joey Lee tool lets people scour Mapbox images to find letters, numbers and characters in the landscape (pictured)
article_snippet: While satellites orbit around the Earth taking thousands of images each day, we have limited idea about what unique features actually live on those photographs,’ said A pair of designers.
article_snippet: Aerial Bold is as much about developing new methods of mapping features on the Earth’s surface, as it is about generating the first map and typeface of the planet.
article_snippet: ‘These training data include examples all of the possible shapes of "A's", "Z's", "6's", "❤'s", and so on that we might be able to see in aerial imagery.
article_snippet: One example could be to find business addresses using visual search - such as all shops on a Street View map where people can buy lottery tickets.
article_snippet: The tool lets people scan through Mapbox satellite images and catalogue all the letters, numbers and characters numbers and characters find.
article_snippet: The exact location of the satellite imagery isn’t revealed.
article_snippet: A selection of letters that have been found using the tool are pictured with letters that have been found using the tool respective locations and co-ordinates .
highlights_snippet: Called Aerial Bold, The project lets people scan through Mapbox satellite images .
  