mapscii VS rosshow

Compare mapscii vs rosshow and see what are their differences.

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)

rosshow

Visualize ROS topics inside a terminal with Unicode/ASCII art (by dheera)
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mapscii rosshow
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JavaScript Python
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" 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.

rosshow

Posts with mentions or reviews of rosshow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-11.
  • Introducing ROSboard: Visualizations in the web browser
    2 projects | /r/ROS | 11 Jul 2021
    I’m the author of ROSshow (GitHub - dheera/rosshow: Visualize ROS topics inside a terminal with Unicode/ASCII art 3), which lets you visualize ROS topics with ASCII art.
  • Telnet Mapscii.me
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2021
    I do something very similar in ROSshow for NavSatFix (GPS) messages: https://github.com/dheera/rosshow

    https://github.com/dheera/rosshow/raw/master/screenshot3.png...

    It also has a pure ASCII mode:

    https://github.com/dheera/rosshow/raw/master/screenshot3-asc...

    Unfortunately this utility isn't really usable outside of the context of robotics and ROS but one could extract the map rendering functionality and create a separate utility out if it if they wished.

    The main difference in approach between this and Mapscii is that I actually just convert raster map tiles from OSM instead of using the vector data.

  • Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2021
    I built a visualization tool for ROS topics that uses Braille to achieve a dot-based interface in the terminal:

    https://github.com/dheera/rosshow

    I imagine a lot of it could also be re-used in creating terminal dashboards for other purposes.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

rosboard - ROS node that turns your robot into a web server to visualize ROS topics

OsmAnd - OsmAnd

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

charm - The Charm Tool and Library 🌟

dashing - Terminal dashboards for Python

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

blessed - A high-level terminal interface library for node.js.

chat - A telnet chat server

GoAccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

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

blessed-contrib - Build terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript