Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I’ve spent some of my spare time between commercial projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms. These are the results of my findings limited within the state of Victoria, Australia.

With seeing the letterset, my mind leaped to spell with flickr, and a bit of copy paste got me a personalized logo courtesy of this alphabet.

Australia, thus is calling me

The sources are
c o g d o g

So maybe an interesting class/group assignment might be to find an alphabet in your own region… Hmmm, I know of a river bend on the Little Colorado River that would make a great C….

Update: I completely forgot about geoGreeting which I blogged back in 2006 – it has a very cool way of rendering your message; not exactly the same as finding your own letter, but still fun.

This was found via a curious site trendalicious which bubbles up popular sites that have recently been tagged in del.icio.us:

trendalicious is a near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two people in the past fifty minutes are displayed, ranked by the total number of recent posts.

Could be an interesting way to do an animated screencast over time to track popular memes… but in general, it is a powerful use of the collective delicious hive mind.