Access Maps from Command Line Rendered on ASCII with Mapscii

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Have you ever wished you could access a mapping application from the command line? Now you can with Mapscii, which is a bit like Google Maps or Apple Maps, but for the Terminal, where all map data is displayed in ASCII text and characters.

MapSCII uses OpenStreetMap data and the entire Earth can be navigated through the command line which is rendered seamlessly in ASCII. In addition to being only interesting and kind of a nice proof-of-concept to access map data from the command line in a console map rendered in ASCII, MapSCII is also Braille compatible, which is obviously valuable to many users in its own right (and certainly more useful than watching Star Wars in ASCII from the Terminal).

Okay enough talk, you probably want to try this yourself (well, if you’re a geek like me anyway). This is demonstrated on a Mac with Terminal app, but since you telnet to a remote server, you can also access MapSCII from any other terminal application, be it on Mac OS X, Linux, Unix or Windows with an app like PuTTY or the Windows 10 linux bash shell.

Access maps from the terminal with MapSCII

1. Open the Terminal application, found in / Applications / Utilities /, and type the following command syntax:

telnet mapscii.me

2. Hit return and once you are connected to the remote MapSCII server you are ready to browse and enjoy the ASCII maps

MapSCII can be navigated with the keyboard or mouse, keyboard navigation is easy with the following keys:

• Use the arrow keys to navigate around the map: Up, down, left right
• A zooms in on the maps
• Z zooms out of the maps
• C turns off / on ASCII mode

You can also click and hold and drag your mouse cursor on the map.

Whether you find this fun, interesting, nerdy, useful or useless is up to you. Most users will be perfectly happy using Google Maps on the web or iPhone, or the Apple Maps app on their Mac, iPhone or iPad, but even then it’s still nice to access a full-fledged from the command line card application.

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The MapSCII project is open source and you can also install it locally if you want, check out the project here on GitHub.

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