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Won't go offline before me going offlife ;)

Even though it runs locally, it is network-connected to the tile server that provides you with the vector tiles (unless they are cached locally after their first use). You currently have to wait for the requested tile(s) to be downloaded, processed, and available in memory before continuing rendering (which is slow in direct comparison to rendering itself). Could be improved by continuing to render the zoomed features of the parent tile until its children are ready (triggering a re-render) - but for now, it simply lets you wait until then :)

Thanks for the kudos and the shared joy :) AMA, happy to answer any potential questions!

thank you for the big smile and amazement about MapSCII being adapted for a whole new level of creativity - beautiful project, kudos to you!

Quick update: scaling up again atm, HN was a bit too much for the current machines :)

Indeed it does, take a look at the BrailleBuffer[1] :) Thanks for the kudos!

[1] https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/blob/master/src/Braill...

From people who are willing to exchange 'real'-money backed numbers ('fiat') with might-have-some-worth-soon numbers.

thanks for touching the heart of an old perlmonk :)

2147483647 (2^31-1) is worth watching as well.

A second later the first bit of any timestamp still handled as signed int32 will flip and the ride into the past begins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

:) some more info and discussion around MapSCII can be found @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14254165

new old school magic ;) http://www.xfree86.org/4.7.0/ctlseqs.html#Mouse%20Tracking

Very odd - na, that's a bug and not a feature, I'm just throwing color coded Braille characters at you ;) Most likely related to your Terminal version, http://iterm2.com might help.

Not yet, heaps of CLI parameters in the ToDo though - until then, clone the repo and set it in https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/blob/master/src/Mapsci... - & thanks for the kudos ;)

Came across the vector tile format, fell in love with it, used it for some projects, idea came to mind -> wrote it as a side project :)

no, not in the inital one :) kinda freestyle gitmojis (http://gitmoji.carloscuesta.me)

It currently uses the Planet file of http://osm2vectortiles.com, but will be ported to its successor https://openmaptiles.org soon. Both projects -> pure awesomeness!

Thanks for the kudos ;)

Thank you & especially thanks for the work on the vector tile format - so much in love with it and the possibilities that come along! Cheers!

Its complelty self stylable (based on Mapbox Style definitions, https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-style-spec/) - so no need for orange plasma, just set https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii/blob/master/styles/dar... to orange :D

Good question indeed, main reason for me was the incredible well toolset in the node.js world around Vector Tile based map data and GIS processing. Check out the list of used libraries in the repo and you might understand ;)

Thanks and enjoy :)