The Google Earth alphabet

July 10th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 

A friend sent me the link to this article about a woman who distracted herself from her injuries by finding the alphabet in images from Google Earth!

Google earth a-z

Rachel came up with the idea as a way of passing the time during her convalescence after being badly injured in a car accident in February.
Incapacitated and laid up in her home in Ossett, West Yorkshire, she decided to hunt down perfect images representing all 26 letters of the alphabet.
‘I thought it would be a nice way to celebrate our country,’ she says.
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‘I did a lot of scrolling around on Google, flipping images around just waiting to find the right shapes,’ she says. ‘I tried to focus on areas where there would be good, strong shapes.
‘Being from Yorkshire, I knew that would be a good place for fields and hedgerows. I thought that cities such as London, Manchester and Liverpool would be a safe bet for odd-shaped buildings.

There are worse ways to spend your sickdays I suppose, however I’m not overly impressed by her ‘S’. I wonder if I can find better…

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