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Yet another font thing. Remember quadkeys? They split map tiles into quadrants 0 (top left), 1 (top right), 2 (bottom left), 3 (bottom right), and add more digits as you zoom in. E.g., Nova Scotia falls in quadkey 03032 at zoom 5. #gischat #geography

Darren Wiens

@darrenwiens.github.io

Unrelated, fonts can have things called ligatures, which can change a glyph based on groups of typed characters. It's how when you type "ae", some fonts group them automatically into "æ". You can also make longer ligatures if you want.

16/8/26, 9:16 pm0 reposts1 like

Darren Wiens

@darrenwiens.github.io

16 Aug

Anyway, I made a font with all the quadkeys as ligatures. So, here, I type "03032" to incrementally get to the quadkey showing Nova Scotia, and you could do the same for any location on Earth. First, it shows glyph "0", then the "03" ligature, and so on until the "03032" ligature. Pretty neat, huh?