rastapasta

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 :)

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 :)