mapscii vs catimg

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 (by rastapasta)

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catimg

🦦 Insanely fast image printing in your terminal (by posva)

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mapscii		catimg
	Project
16	Mentions	1
6,867	Stars	1,322
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	C
MIT License	License	MIT License

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mapscii

Posts with mentions or reviews of mapscii. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-18.

Show HN: MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024

Based on https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii, jI ust found this today. Maybe today I am one of the lucky ten thousand(https://xkcd.com/1053/).
MapSCII – ASCII world map renderer for your console – enter => telnet mapscii.me
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024
I made an ascii art weather radar. Would love some collaborators.
2 projects | /r/ASCII | 18 Feb 2023

Have you seen the mapscii project? Might be helpful to reach out: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
Earth Map in a MUD
1 project | /r/MUD | 20 Jan 2023

FWIW - https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
Ancient Egypt ASCII Map
1 project | /r/imaginarymaps | 3 Jan 2023
Writing a Google Maps clone, in the terminal
1 project | /r/commandline | 14 Oct 2022

You could probably get some ideas from this.
Yes, this thing exists and works better than google maps
2 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 29 Jun 2022

See this issue on github
Does anyone have a useful map for the terminal?
1 project | /r/neovim | 21 May 2022
Charm – tools to make the command line glamorous
18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2022
OSM Geo Mapper - Navigate OpenStreetMap data in the terminal
2 projects | /r/rust | 14 Jun 2021

Maybe you don't know about mapscii yet, a similar project written in JS which could definitely be a great source of inspiration? ;)

catimg

Posts with mentions or reviews of catimg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-04.

MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mapscii and catimg you can also consider the following projects:

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

TerminalImageViewer - Small C++ program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters

OsmAnd - OsmAnd

typist - typist is a simple, terminal typing speed test using only the standard c libraries.

charm - The Charm Tool and Library 🌟

microrl-remaster - Micro Read Line library for small and embedded devices [REMASTER]

console-image-browser - Console Image Browser (cib) - An interactive wrapper for viewing images in the terminal

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

chat - A telnet chat server

Git - Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.