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MapSCII – World map in terminal
- ddawson 1y agoBonkers. This is a lot of fun.
- tweakimp 1y agoI thought this was about Starcraft
- ktpsns 1y agoOh man, me too. SCII = StarCraft 2, and "maps" was such a typical term in StarCraft. I loved it. Had a great time with it, 20 years ago.
- dgrin91 1y agoVery cool and already 8+ years old
- jeffwass 1y agoReminds me of Google Maps for the NES : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg
- junon 1y agoC-base! Still need to get over there sometime to check it out.
- nextrastapasta 1y ago[dead]
- kstrauser 1y agoUnrelated comment on the GitHub username: that was the name of my favorite dish at one of my favorite restaurants. Said diner had a charmingly stoner atmosphere: https://honeypot.net/2008/02/09/you-want-how.html https://honeypot.net/2008/02/09/you-want-how.html (To this day, in my house we call garlic bread “6BR”, as in, “hey Dad, could you pass the 6BR?”)
- theflyestpilot 1y agoWonder if it would make gps possible/useful on a Watchy
- reaperducer 1y agoIt's great that this can be accessed via Telnet, instead of SSH, which opens it up to the machines that need it most: Vintage computers that can't do SSH. My personal server delivers content via HTTP/S, or Telnet, so this will be a good way to display maps for people who connect via Telnet.
- meken 1y agoI play a daily game called FoodGuessr, where you guess the country that some kind of food came from Would be fun to use this with that - thanks!
- veddox 1y agoVery cool! I expected this would be quite a rudimentary map, but it actually uses OpenStreetMap, so you can zoom right in to the street level.
- hollowonepl 1y agoTUI porn continued. I love it!
- denis_dolya 1y agoThe only thing I can say when I saw it is — WOW!
- Panzerschrek 1y agoLooks very nice! But for me it works properly only in a terminal emulator, proper GNU/Linux terminal (Ctrl+Shift+F1) can't display most of used symbols, it supports only ASCII.
- britmap 1y ago[dead]
- JdeBP 1y ago* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27388589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27388589 It has been over 4 years and the redirect is still there. That bet would have been lost. (-:
- dang 1y agoThanks! Previous threads macroexpanded: Telnet Mapscii.me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572328 - July 2025 (1 comment) MapSCII – A Braille and ASCII world map renderer for the console - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39975887 - April 2024 (23 comments) MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27042629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27042629 - May 2021 (43 comments) MapSCII: World map renderer for your console - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20375881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20375881 - July 2019 (24 comments) MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14254165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14254165 - May 2017 (65 comments)
- rastapasta 1y agoWon't go offline before me going offlife ;)
- aftbit 1y agoNeat! I noticed it seems to crash when I open telnet in a fullscreen terminal (alacritty on 2560x1440), but if I make terminal half-width, it works. I didn't realize you could pass mouse control over telnet - need to read some code now! Good hack.
- JdeBP 1y agoThere are some oddities in the telnet version, such as it conflating XTerm and PuTTY, and it presenting a bizarre timeout message when presented with a blank TERM environment variable. I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow thinks that NVTs cannot have more than 256 columns. Alas, that's the part that has no source available. (The TELNET server class library has published source, buried in a hyperlink in a comment to a closed issue from 2019, but the actual program built to use that library has not.)
- justusthane 1y agoMouse movement is signaled in the terminal via ANSI escape sequences, which are just in-band character sequences which your terminal is smart enough not to display, so Telnet itself doesn’t actually have anything to do with it. As far as Telnet knows, they aren’t different from any other characters.
- curtisszmania 1y ago[dead]
- noufalibrahim 1y agoVery beautiful.