[HN Gopher] MapSCII - The Whole World in Your Console
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       MapSCII - The Whole World in Your Console
        
       Author : luke2m
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2021-05-04 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | rpastuszak wrote:
       | This is awesome! I'm desperately looking for rougelike ideas that
       | could rely on those maps.
        
       | gregsadetsky wrote:
       | 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 cities. The pan was in real time -- 300km in about 3 hours.
       | I've been going back and forth between these cities for many
       | years. This art piece, named "Contrecoeur" (a city name along the
       | way, and also "against one's heart" in French) was a digital
       | contemplative take on this.
       | 
       | A video, if anyone's curious:
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTbg49Tx7k
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       | @rastapasta, thanks a lot for your work!
        
         | naikrovek wrote:
         | two homes! is this common or am I a mere plebe with my single
         | home?
        
           | gregsadetsky wrote:
           | Parent's/"home home", and my own home in a city 3 hours away.
           | :-)
        
       | kderbyma wrote:
       | this is great. I have been looking for map alternatives to google
       | and apple. this is great for those times when all you have is a
       | shell and no Gui. very nice. will bookmark and remember this.
        
         | rpastuszak wrote:
         | > this is great for those times when all you have is a shell
         | and no Gui.
         | 
         | Genuine question: like when?
        
       | bluenose69 wrote:
       | This is impressive, and really quite fun.
        
       | ant6n wrote:
       | That video zoomed in to a place 200m from my house (near C-Base,
       | Berlin). It felt totally natural (of course I'll zoom to my
       | house!) and only when it deviated slightly from my actual home
       | did it seem weird (wait, It's not me who zoomed to my house).
       | 
       | Really like the Braille Console hacks.
        
       | nmg wrote:
       | Does this use a custom algorithm to map pixels to characters? It
       | really shines when zooming in and out.
        
         | rastapasta wrote:
         | Indeed it does, take a look at the BrailleBuffer[1] :) Thanks
         | for the kudos!
         | 
         | [1]
         | https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/blob/master/src/Braill...
        
       | rastapasta wrote:
       | Quick update: scaling up again atm, HN was a bit too much for the
       | current machines :)
        
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