The project began as a Benedikt Groß campaign that was funded in November . It was set up by designer Kickstarter and geographer Joey Lee . They raised $ 11,492 ( £7,630 ) and have since set up a crowdsourcing tool . Called Aerial Bold , it lets people scan through Mapbox satellite images . They then catalogue all the letters , numbers and characters they can find . Database will develop a letterform detection and classification algorithms .
The project began as a Kickstarter campaign that was funded in November . It was set up by designer Benedikt Groß and geographer Joey Lee . They raised $ 11,492 ( £7,630 ) and have since set up a crowdsourcing tool . Called Aerial Bold , it lets people scan through Mapbox satellite images . They then catalogue all the letters , numbers and characters they can find . Database will develop a letterform detection and classification algorithms .