termap - Terminal Map Viewer

No web browser around? No worries - discover the planet in your console!

• Use your mouse or keys to navigate
• Discover the globe or zoom in to explore your neighbourhood
• See Point-of-Interest around any given location
• Use an online map server or work offline with VectorTile/MBTiles
• Highly customizable styling (colors, feature visibility, ...)
• Compatible with Linux and OS X (Windows to be tested)
• 99% pure Coffee-/JavaScript! 😎

How to get it?

• Make sure to have at least node.js version 4 installed

• Install termap with

  npm install -g termap

How to use it?

Basic usage

• Start termap with

  termap

Behind the scenes

Libraries

Mastering the console

• x256 for converting RGB values to closest xterm-256 color code
• term-mouse for mouse handling
• keypress for input handling

Discovering the map data

• node-mbtiles for MBTiles parsing
• pbf for Protobuf decoding
• vector-tile-js for VectorTile parsing

Juggling the vectors and numbers

• earcut for polygon triangulation
• rbush for 2D spatial indexing based label and mouse collision detection
• gl-matrix for vector and matrix operations
• breseham for line calculations
• sphericalmercator for EPSG:3857 <> WGS84 conversions

TODOs

• mouse hover
  • of POIs/labels
  • maybe even polygons/-lines?
• termap-server - telnet and ssh access
• cli linking
• mapping of view to tiles to show
• abstracted MapBox style JSON support
• giving render priority to features across layers (collect before render vs. direct)?
• line drawing
  • support for stroke width
  • support for dashed/dotted lines?
• label drawing
  • support for point labels
  • dynamic decluttering of labels
  • centering text labels
  • clipping fix when x<0 after repositioning
  • multi line label
  • label margin to avoid POI overlap?
  • translatable raster fonts
• filled polygons
  • convert polygons to triangles
  • implement fillTriangle into drawille-canvas-blessed-contrib
  • respect fill/line style file based setting
• lat/lng-center + zoom based viewport
  • bbox awareness
  • zoom -> scale calculation
• Tile parsing
  • directly throw away features that aren't covered by any style
• TileSource class (abstracting URL, mbtiles, single vector tile source)
• tile request system
  • from local mbtiles
  • from remote url
    • permanent caching of received files
• zoom while keeping center
• API
  • setCenter
  • setZoom
• start with zoom level which shows full vector tile
• accurate mouse drag&drop
• handle console resize
• styling

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Michael Straßburger

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