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termap.coffee |
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 learn about house numbers
- 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?
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Make sure to have at least node.js version 4 installed
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Install
termap
withnpm install -g termap
How to use it?
Basic usage
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Start
termap
withtermap
Behind the scenes
Libraries
Mastering the console
drawille-canvas-blessed-contrib
for braille renderingterm-mouse
for mouse handlingkeypress
for input handling
Discovering the map data
node-mbtiles
for MBTiles parsingpbf
for Protobuf decodingvector-tile-js
for VectorTile parsing
Juggling the vectors and numbers
rbush
for 2D spatial indexing based label and mouse collision detectionsphericalmercator
for EPSG:3857 <> WGS84 conversions
Wishlist
- node port of libdrawille - well optimized library, supporting filled polygons
TODOs
- cli linking
- mapping of view to tiles to show
- label drawing
- support for point labels
- dynamic decluttering of labels
- centering text labels
- filled polygons
- convert polygons to triangles
- implement fillTriangle into drawille-canvas-blessed-contrib
- lat/lng-center + zoom based viewport
- bbox awareness
- zoom -> scale calculation
- 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
- turn this into a
blessed-contrib
widget
License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Michael Straßburger
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.