The project began as a Kickstarter campaign that was funded in 2006 . It was set up by designer mark Groß and van Joey Lee . They raised $ 11,492 ( £ 7,630 ) and have since set up a crowdsourcing tool . Called Aerial Bold , it lets people search through # ##ing images . They then catalogue all the letters , symbols and characters they can find . they 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 .