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rastapasta / mapscii

🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
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Add ability to pipe in coordinates and have these show on map #35

Open briangranatir opened 6 years ago

briangranatir commented 6 years ago

A great use for this system would be to view events (or alerts) on a map. For example, I have traffic sensors distributed throughout a city. It would be nice if I could pipe in an array of {lat, long} pairs and have markers appear on the map. Then mapscii becomes a great starting point for any monitoring service.

Great project! Keep with it. Thanks.

rastapasta commented 6 years ago

Hey @briangranatir, thanks for checking in!

Winter is coming, with it finally more time to be devoted to mapscii - a STDIN GeoJSON input/source is on the top of the list, be it for the local client or even via telnet. Stay tuned and sorry for letting the project starve a bit atm - life. :man_shrugging: :innocent:

Naheel-Azawy commented 5 years ago

Hello! This is what really made me reach this. I have a script that outputs coordinates continuously that can be for one or multiple markers. What I need is to display markers on the map with different colors or shapes for every coordinate label and keep updating those on the map as they come from stdin.

If I get enough time I might implement this, but to be honest, I'm too lazy to dive and read the entire code for now... @rastapasta if you can only provide me with a lovely "setMarker()" function I guess the rest will be easy for me to implement. And if anyone can implement this entire thing all at once it would be a much grater satisfaction to my laziness!

testbughub commented 1 year ago

I would love this feature, because I have a GPS tracker for a vehicle that I can get the coordinates from via an API, and I was thinking it would be a fun project to combine mapscii and the API into a cli app :smile: