Have you ever been hanging out at the Talus Dome in Edmonton, and someone asks where you are but you just can't quite put your location into words?

There will be an emoji for that — and EDMOji, to be exact.

Two former Edmonton Journal colleagues are developing Edmonton's own set of emojis, and have set up an Indiegogo campaign to fund it. Some current emojis include a sad Mayor Don Iveson inspired by his brief 2014 stint as a meme, the Wayne Gretzky statue, and the "We done bitches" sign saluting the completion of the Anthony Henday Drive.

They've raised more than 90 per cent of their $1,000 goal at the time of publication.

It was all in a tweet

For co-creator Sandra Sperounes, the idea came to her in a tweet. "It was embarrassingly simple, to be honest," she told the CBC's Radio Active Friday.

She was tweeting about emojis in April, and realized by placing a letter 'd' in the word, the word becomes "edmoji."

"And then I thought, 'Edmonton emojis!" she said.

Why hasn't someone created EDMOJIS yet -- emojis about/just for Edmonton? Maybe I should start a <a href="https://twitter.com/makeitYEG">@makeityeg</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/gofundme">@gofundme</a> campaign. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yeg?src=hash">#yeg</a> —@Sperounes

She connected with former Edmonton Journal colleague Lucas Timmons to make an Edmonton-inspired emoji keyboard a reality.

There was only one problem: Timmons didn't have a clue how to make an app.

"When we started this, I didn't know anything about making apps for an iPhone," he said. "But I thought, 'Why not learn?'"

After a few months of learning code to develop the app and having a couple iterations of the app rejected by Apple, Timmons finally created something both he and Apple were happy with — and he's excited to see if Edmontonians are happy with it too.

Landmarks, cultural nods

The app is mostly finished — Timmons and Sperounes have already created quite a few Edmonton-inspired emojis, most of which are landmarks or things unique to Edmonton.

The Garneau and Princess Theatres have their own emojis already, for example, and there was talk of a green onion cake. But the EDMOjis team is always looking for more ideas — Timmons said someone suggested they create a rabbit emoji to represent the growing hare population here.

"It means you also need to draw a coyote," Radio Active host Portia Clark suggested. "We'll put it on the list," Timmons said.

Businesses and people alike can suggest EDMOjis to the team at their Twitter account. They can also contribute $250 to the Indiegogo campaign and receive your very own custom emoji — which will be available to everyone who has the app.

The app is set to be released in the middle of December, just in time for Christmas — so when someone asks you when you're on Christmas holidays, you can send back the Henday sign in celebration.