Folks -

Thought I'd share this tidbit in a thread I saw on usenet.

A telnet server with an interactive world map:

telnet mapscii.me

They use map data from openstreetmap. The OP and respondents to the thread said you have to use real telnet to get in there. Supposedly it's not pure ascii because they use colors and braille unicode. You can move around using vi keys. It's dope enjoy.

Head over to alt.ascii-art if you have time.

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Thought I'd share this tidbit in a thread I saw on usenet.

A telnet server with an interactive world map:

YES!

This is exactly the content I was looking for. I was thinking how can I make my local bike trail system into ascii to put on the cycling message base of my BBS and you may have just found me an answer to that question!

Thanks for the share!

73, N2QFD

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On 14 May 2024, n2qfd said the following...

Thought I'd share this tidbit in a thread I saw on usenet.

A telnet server with an interactive world map:

YES!

This is exactly the content I was looking for. I was thinking how can I make my local bike trail system into ascii to put on the cycling message base of my BBS and you may have just found me an answer to that
question!

Wow, ok I'm glad someone could use it. Somewhat unexpected but great!

... ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.

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Wow, ok I'm glad someone could use it. Somewhat unexpected but great!

So, a little background. I'm a CAD draftsman who works in civil engineering and have been an engineering tech and survey tech for the last 20 years so maps are very much my thing!

Thanks again for the post, very fun.

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A telnet server with an interactive world map:
telnet mapscii.me

They use map data from openstreetmap. The OP and respondents to the
thread said you have to use real telnet to get in there. Supposedly it's not pure ascii because they use colors and braille unicode. You can move around using vi keys. It's dope enjoy.

How do we zoom in??? I've used this before and know I could manipulate the map a lot more...



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On 15 May 2024, paulie420 said the following...

A telnet server with an interactive world map:
telnet mapscii.me

They use map data from openstreetmap. The OP and respondents to the thread said you have to use real telnet to get in there. Supposedly i not pure ascii because they use colors and braille unicode. You can m around using vi keys. It's dope enjoy.

How do we zoom in??? I've used this before and know I could manipulate
the map a lot more...

pAULIE42o
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According to the OP, zoom is a & z

D

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According to the OP, zoom is a & z

D

... I'm not lost, I'm exploring alternative routes

Here when I'm using it via my command terminal it responds with the mouse wheel for zooming just like Google Earth or CAD (so it wasn't developed by anyone from ArcGIS!)

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On 15 May 2024, paulie420 said the following...

A telnet server with an interactive world map:
telnet mapscii.me

They use map data from openstreetmap. The OP and respondents to the thread said you have to use real telnet to get in there. Supposedly i not pure ascii because they use colors and braille unicode. You can m around using vi keys. It's dope enjoy.

How do we zoom in??? I've used this before and know I could manipulate
the map a lot more...

I just tried it for the first time. Zoomed in right to my street - amazing.

It took a while to find though - since there aren't any street labels.

D

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It took a while to find though - since there aren't any street labels.

It was tmux. When I opened it on a normal terminal the street names appeared. So cool!

D

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It's strangely rewarding to me to see other people who love to play with maps.

I forget that not everyone pours over aerial photography all day. I guess being a draftsman working in civil engineering has shaped me a little more than I thought!

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It's strangely rewarding to me to see other people who love to play with maps.
I forget that not everyone pours over aerial photography all day. I guess being a draftsman working in civil engineering has shaped me a little more than I thought!

I'm obsessed with maps. To the point that I avoid Google Maps sometimes because I know I'm going to get lost. Sat imagery is also a problem.. its worse.. I can go for hours on Sat imagery. Especially if I'm hunting a place down.


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On 03 Jun 2024, TheNerd said the following...

I'm obsessed with maps. To the point that I avoid Google Maps sometimes because I know I'm going to get lost. Sat imagery is also a problem.. its worse.. I can go for hours on Sat imagery. Especially if I'm
hunting a place down.

i had a friend who was quite amazed by the paper city maps i have in my car.. for example the little index for looking up street names with the "column" and "row' to find them on the map.. and then the blown up section of downtown. seems like another thing they might not teach in school anymore ..

i have one for each of the nearby cities plus the state one.. don't really need them, but then again if i take them out of the car, i'll end up with a dead phone off somewhere i'm unfamiliar with and then i'll regret taking them out :)

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i had a friend who was quite amazed by the paper city maps i have in my car.. for example the little index for looking up street names with the

I've long since abandoned paper but I grew up with it as well. I remember going on family road trips and getting in trouble for stealing the map book because I was pouring over it. My kid looks at me like an idiot when I talk about paper maps. All they know is GPS..

I have maps on my walls. Thats how much I love maps. I almost missed a plane in St Louis last year because I got staring at a state map on the wall. It had a huge legend... OMG. legends... remember legends... you don't really see them on Google Maps.. they just kinda assume you know or they just label it on mouse over.. but the little itch it would scratch in your head to see a line that you didn't know, you look at the legend and poof you knew. Not quicker.. just satisfying.


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On 03 Jun 2024, n2qfd said the following...

It's strangely rewarding to me to see other people who love to play with maps.

I forget that not everyone pours over aerial photography all day. I guess being a draftsman working in civil engineering has shaped me a little more than I thought!

Being a airman makes me a bit of a map nerd. And a weather nerd. Bunch of other things I won't mention.

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On 03 Jun 2024, TheNerd said the following...

It's strangely rewarding to me to see other people who love to play w maps.
I forget that not everyone pours over aerial photography all day. I guess being a draftsman working in civil engineering has shaped me a little more than I thought!

I'm obsessed with maps. To the point that I avoid Google Maps sometimes because I know I'm going to get lost. Sat imagery is also a problem.. its worse.. I can go for hours on Sat imagery. Especially if I'm
hunting a place down.

I used to read those all the time, back when they'd sit at the endcap in the supermarket grocery line.

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fusion wrote to TheNerd <=-

i had a friend who was quite amazed by the paper city maps i have in my car.. for example the little index for looking up street names with the "column" and "row' to find them on the map.. and then the blown up
section of downtown. seems like another thing they might not teach in school anymore ..

I hope Thomas' Guides are still in business. Those were invaluable -
and will come in handy when people decide that having a device that
checks in with the GPS network isn't such a great idea. :)


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TheNerd wrote to fusion <=-

I have maps on my walls. Thats how much I love maps.

In college, friends of mine moved into an old victorian flat in San
Francisco - back then, most of the rentals in central SF were old
victorian flats in various states of repair.

They had a housewarming party and asked people to bring maps. I didn't
understand, until I came back the week afterwards and they'd covered
all of the dingy, stained walls in the living room with maps,
interwoven. It looked very cool.

In retrospect, nowadays, in a rent-controlled world, I'd buy a 5 gallon
can of satin white paint, rent a carpet shampooer, and DIY - and not
tell the landlord. I knew so many people who made waves waiting for
landlords to clean places, when picking up and finding a new place was
always more expensive. Better and cheaper to make your space
comfortable and eat the cost, I'd think now.

Not to mention the fact that when you do move, it's sometimes a
struggle to get your security deposit back. Showing the place looking
better than when you move in and having the landlord try to deduct
repairs/cleaning would be entertaining!





I almost missed a

plane in St Louis last year because I got staring at a state map on the wall. It had a huge legend... OMG. legends... remember legends...
you don't really see them on Google Maps.. they just kinda assume you know or they just label it on mouse over.. but the little itch it
would scratch in your head to see a line that you didn't know, you look
at the legend and poof you knew. Not quicker.. just satisfying.

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Being a airman makes me a bit of a map nerd. And a weather nerd. Bunch
of other things I won't mention.

Yeah, I grew up flying in sailplanes. Did some power training but ended up a commercial drone license.
Funny though, the wife and I have made no cell phone trips where we had to use paper maps. Good maps are harder to find these days than you think! And we have a NY map that's before all the current interstates were finished so we've taken pre-interstate trips too.
Had a great Rt 20 motorcycle ride once, I90 the Thruway parallels it now.

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My landlord got pissy and said we should pay for damages, but it was 25 year tennancy and the carpet naturally aged.


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On 04 Jun 2024, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

TheNerd wrote to fusion <=-

I have maps on my walls. Thats how much I love maps.

I had a rather detailed military type map covering a wall when I lived in West Germany, and would put a dot on each small town I visited, usually doing a Volksmarch.

When visitors commented on the map, the reason for th dots was varied a bit though, depending on if the visitor was gulible and/or anoying.

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k9zw wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I had a rather detailed military type map covering a wall when I lived
in West Germany, and would put a dot on each small town I visited,
usually doing a Volksmarch.

There's a story online about a guy who's office Zoom background during
the pandemic was a street map. He started adding pushpins and yarn,
photos and notes, making a pretty good approximation of a
conspiracy/murder board.




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