rastapasta/mapscii
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🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
22 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 7 stories, 15 comments · first 2017-04-30 · latest 2025-10-01
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…for a resource constrained device. > I think that I want a 5G tty qwerty terminal..? :-) > aka https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii for maps, etc. For resource constrained devices, it's probably easier to render the vector graphics.…
comment by bArray · 2025-10-01 · in Tactility: An ESP32 OS -
…of bandwidth/rendering requirements, etc. I think that I want a 5G tty qwerty terminal..? :-) aka https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii for maps, etc. > and you're not easily going to get 4G/5G support Sorry, what do you mean by that? In…
comment by gregsadetsky · 2025-10-01 · in Tactility: An ESP32 OS -
while I was joking, the code behind that can be run locally: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii ... it supports pointing at any public or private vector tile server, and does support supplying a starting coordinate and zoom. There is…
comment by bazzargh · 2024-12-28 · in Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch -
…char for the shape and brightness. Like rastapasta map renderer did with the braille block: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975887 --- https://github.com/kciter/ascii-3d-renderer.js/blob/1f1a8493…
comment by mxfh · 2024-08-12 · in ASCII 3D Renderer for JavaScript -
Based on https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii , jI ust found this today. Maybe today I am one of the lucky ten thousand( https://xkcd.com/1053/ ).
comment by vinnyglennon · 2024-04-10 · in Show HN: MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console -
Or the awesome https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii :))
comment by simon04 · 2022-01-24 · in Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous -
Source: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
comment by dsr_ · 2021-06-03 · in Telnet Mapscii.me -
Indeed it does, take a look at the BrailleBuffer[1] :) Thanks for the kudos! [1] https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/blob/master/src/Braill...
comment by rastapasta · 2021-05-04 · in MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console -
Have you seen this (maps in over telnet)? Really awesome. https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
comment by droidist2 · 2019-04-15 · in Show HN: Messing with Telnet -
…for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows" https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
comment by pella · 2018-12-16 · in Typewriter Cartography -
…[1] that was posted here a few months back, which also uses braille characters for rendering. [1] https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
comment by JonathonW · 2017-10-26 · in Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with Unicode Braille characters -
You can use braille unicode characters for sub-character dots as in https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
comment by irth · 2017-07-04 · in Bashfill – art for your terminal -
…coolest console experience I've ever had. You can check it out by running "telnet mapscii.me" [0] https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
comment by jszymborski · 2017-05-23 · in Ask HN: Good examples of interactive command-line user experience? -
Not yet, heaps of CLI parameters in the ToDo though - until then, clone the repo and set it in https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/blob/master/src/Mapsci... - & thanks for the kudos ;)
comment by rastapasta · 2017-05-03 · in MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console -
…https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-style-spec/ ) - so no need for orange plasma, just set https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/blob/master/styles/dar... to orange :D
comment by rastapasta · 2017-05-03 · in MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console