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Comment by gregsadetsky

It's such a beautiful project. The telnet access, the supported zoom and scroll gestures...

I once heavily hacked the (very!) well organized and readable code to send the vector features -- the roads -- to an Arduino that was generating a TV signal. I actually used two Arduinos, one showing text labels only, the other one for line features.

MapSCII was programmed to slowly pan between two of my homes (between Quebec City and Montreal), along the highway connecting these cities. The pan was in real time -- 300km in about 3 hours. I've been going back and forth between these cities for many years. This art piece, named "Contrecœur" (a city name along the way, and also "against one's heart" in French) was a digital contemplative take on this.

A video, if anyone's curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTbg49Tx7k

@rastapasta, thanks a lot for your work!

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