MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console
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HN comment orderAs an author of the vector tile specification it is really exciting to see how many different things people can do with the format. People are using data in ways that constantly amaze myself and others. There is an ever growing number of tools that have been built around the format and the future seems bright. I really enjoyed your map, great job!
Unrelated 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 (To this day, in my house we call garlic bread “6BR”, as in, “hey Dad, could you pass the 6BR?”)
It's such a beautiful project. The telnet access, the supported zoom and scroll gestures... I once heavily hacked the (very!) well organized and readable code to send the vector features -- the roads -- to an Arduino that was generating a TV signal. I actually used two Arduinos, one showing text labels only, the other one for line features. MapSCII was programmed to slowly pan between two of my homes (between Quebec City and Montreal), along the highway connecting these…
Shameless plug for: `ssh brow.sh -t https://maps.google.com`
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- Breakout years
- 5
- Total points
- 1116
- Total comments
- 177
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-30 | MapSCII – Braille and ASCII OpenStreetMap renderer for your console | rastapasta | 5 | 0 |
| 2017-05-03 | MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the consoleFirst breakout · Best thread | anc84 | 389 | 65 |
| 2019-07-07 | MapSCII: World map renderer for your console | tambourine_man | 169 | 24 |
| 2021-05-04 | MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console | luke2m | 187 | 43 |
| 2024-04-09 | MapSCII – A Braille and ASCII world map renderer for the consoleHall induction | itherseed | 147 | 23 |
| 2025-07-15 | Telnet Mapscii.me | r3tr0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-09-18 | MapSCII – World map in terminalLatest 20+ point return | _august | 218 | 21 |