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The World Map In Your Terminal
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I just stumbled upon an interesting utility. The World map in the Terminal! Yes, It is so cool. Say hello to **MapSCII** , a Braille and ASCII world map renderer for your xterm-compatible terminals. It supports GNU/Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. I thought it is a just another project hosted on GitHub. But I was wrong! It is really impressive what they did there. We can use our mouse pointer to drag and zoom in and out a location anywhere in the world map. The other notable features are;
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* Discover Point-of-Interests around any given location
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* Highly customizable layer styling with [Mapbox Styles][1] support
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* Connect to any public or private vector tile server
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* Or just use the supplied and optimized [OSM2VectorTiles][2] based one
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* Work offline and discover local [VectorTile][3]/[MBTiles][4]
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* Compatible with most Linux and OSX terminals
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* Highly optimizied algorithms for a smooth experience
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### Displaying the World Map in your Terminal using MapSCII
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To open the map, just run the following command from your Terminal:
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```
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telnet mapscii.me
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```
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Here is the World map from my Terminal.
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[![][5]][6]
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Cool, yeah?
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To switch to Braille view, press **c**.
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[![][5]][7]
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Type **c** again to switch back to the previous format **.**
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To scroll around the map, use arrow keys **up** , **down** , **left** , **right**. To zoom in/out a location, use **a** and **z** keys. Also, you can use the scroll wheel of your mouse to zoom in or out. To quit the map, press **q**.
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Like I already said, don't think it is a simple project. Click on any location on the map and press **" a"** to zoom in.
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Here are some the sample screenshots after I zoomed it.
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[![][5]][8]
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I can be able to zoom to view the states in my country (India).
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[![][5]][9]
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And the districts in a state (Tamilnadu):
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[![][5]][10]
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Even the [Taluks][11] and the towns in a district:
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[![][5]][12]
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And, the place where I completed my schooling:
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[![][5]][13]
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Even though it is just a smallest town, MapSCII displayed it accurately. MapSCII uses [**OpenStreetMap**][14] to collect the data.
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### Install MapSCII locally
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Liked it? Great! You can host it on your own system.
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Make sure you have installed Node.js on your system. If not, refer the following link.
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[Install NodeJS on Linux][15]
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Then, run the following command to install it.
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```
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sudo npm install -g mapscii
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```
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To launch MapSCII, run:
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```
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mapscii
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```
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Have fun! More good stuffs to come. Stay tuned!
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Cheers!
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via: https://www.ostechnix.com/mapscii-world-map-terminal/
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作者：[SK][a]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID)
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本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出
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[a]:https://www.ostechnix.com/author/sk/
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[1]:https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-style-spec/
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[2]:https://github.com/osm2vectortiles
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[3]:https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec
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[4]:https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec
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[5]:data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7
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[6]:http://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MapSCII-1-2.png ()
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[7]:http://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MapSCII-2.png ()
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[8]:http://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MapSCII-3.png ()
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[9]:http://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MapSCII-4.png ()
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[10]:http://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MapSCII-5.png ()
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[11]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehsils_of_India
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[12]:http://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MapSCII-6.png ()
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[13]:http://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MapSCII-7.png ()
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[14]:https://www.openstreetmap.org/
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[15]:https://www.ostechnix.com/install-node-js-linux/
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