ascii-map

A high-performance, truecolor terminal-based ASCII map explorer. Rewritten in TypeScript/Node for 100x better performance!

Features

• 100x Faster: Truecolor (24-bit) render engine with optimized scanline polygon filling
• Parallel Fetching: MVT vector tiles loaded concurrently via native Fetch API
• Dynamic Decoding: Uses Mapbox Vector Tile and Protobuf directly in JS for instant parses
• Production Ready: Fully compiled and ready to be used as a global NPM cli tool.

Install

npm install -g ascii-map-cli

Or run directly using npx:

npx ascii-map-cli

Run

npm start
# OR
ascii-map

Controls

Key	Action
W/A/S/D / Arrows	Pan map
+ / -	Zoom in / out
Q / Ctrl+C	Quit