MapSCII – World map in terminal • Hacker News Board

Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by reaperducer » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 3:50 PM UTC

It'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.

Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by meken » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

I 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!

Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by veddox » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 5:53 PM UTC

Very 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.

Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by hollowonepl » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 5:59 PM UTC

TUI porn continued. I love it!

Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by denis_dolya » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 6:00 PM UTC

The only thing I can say when I saw it is — WOW!

Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by Panzerschrek » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 6:08 PM UTC

Looks 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.

Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by britmap » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 6:22 PM UTC

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Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by JdeBP » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 6:35 PM UTC

* 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. (-:

Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by dang » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 7:15 PM UTC

JdeBP wrote: post #18

* 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. (-:

Thanks! Previous threads macroexpanded:

Telnet Mapscii.me - 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 - April 2024 (23 comments)

MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console - 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 - July 2019 (24 comments)

MapSCII – Braille and ASCII map renderer for the console - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14254165 - May 2017 (65 comments)

Re: MapSCII – World map in terminal

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Post by aftbit » Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 8:31 PM UTC

Neat! 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.