A node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals.
$ telnet mapscii.me
If you're on Windows, use the open source telnet client PuTTY to connect.
- Use your mouse to drag and zoom in and out!
- Discover Point-of-Interests around any given location
- Highly customizable layer styling with Mapbox Styles support
- Connect to any public or private vector tile server
- Or just use the supplied and optimized OSM2VectorTiles based one
- Work offline and discover local VectorTile/MBTiles
- Compatible with most Linux and OSX terminals
- Highly optimized algorithms for a smooth experience
- 100% pure JavaScript! 😎
With a modern node installation available, just start it with
npx mapscii
If you haven't already got Node.js >= version 6.14, then go get it.
npm install -g mapscii
If you're on OSX, or get an error about file permissions, you may need to do sudo npm install -g mapscii
In any of the supported Linux distros:
sudo snap install mapscii
(This snap is maintained by @nathanhaines)
This is pretty simple too.
mapscii
- Arrows up, down, left, right to scroll around
- Press a or z to zoom in and out
- Press c to switch to block character mode
- Press q to quit
If your terminal supports mouse events you can drag the map and use your scroll wheel to zoom in and out.
x256
for converting RGB values to closest xterm-256 color codeterm-mouse
for mouse handlingkeypress
for input handlingstring-width
to determine visual string lengths
vector-tile
for VectorTile parsingpbf
for Protobuf decodingmbtiles
for MBTiles parsing
earcut
for polygon triangulationrbush
for 2D spatial indexing of geo and label databresenham
for line point calculationssimplify-js
for polyline simplifications
bluebird
for all the asynchronous Promise magicnode-fetch
for HTTP requestsuserhome
to determine where to persist downloaded tiles
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MapSCII
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GeoJSON support via geojson-vt
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CLI support
- startup parameters
- TileSource
- Style
- center position
- zoom
- demo mode?
- startup parameters
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mouse control
- hover POIs/labels
- hover maybe even polygons/-lines?
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Styler
- respect zoom based style ranges
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Renderer
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TileSource
- implement single vector-tile handling
- lukasmartinelli & manuelroth for all their work on OSM2VectorTiles (global vector tiles from OSM Planet)
- mourner for all his work on mindblowing GIS algorithms (like the used earcut, rbush, simplify-js, ..)
OpenStreetMap is open data, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF).
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon our data, you may distribute the result only under the same licence. The full legal code explains your rights and responsibilities.
The cartography in our map tiles, and our documentation, are licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (CC BY-SA).