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ddawson
Bonkers. This is a lot of fun.
dgrin91
Very cool and already 8+ years old
tweakimp
I thought this was about Starcraft
junon
C-base! Still need to get over there sometime to check it out.
kstrauser
Unrelated comment on the GitHub username: that was the name of my favorite dish at one of my favorite restaurants. Said diner had a charmingly stoner atmosphere: https://honeypot.net/2008/02/09/you-want-how.html

(To this day, in my house we call garlic bread “6BR”, as in, “hey Dad, could you pass the 6BR?”)

theflyestpilot
Wonder if it would make gps possible/useful on a Watchy
reaperducer
It's great that this can be accessed via Telnet, instead of SSH, which opens it up to the machines that need it most: Vintage computers that can't do SSH.

My personal server delivers content via HTTP/S, or Telnet, so this will be a good way to display maps for people who connect via Telnet.

meken
I play a daily game called FoodGuessr, where you guess the country that some kind of food came from

Would be fun to use this with that - thanks!

veddox
Very cool! I expected this would be quite a rudimentary map, but it actually uses OpenStreetMap, so you can zoom right in to the street level.
denis_dolya
The only thing I can say when I saw it is — WOW!
Panzerschrek
Looks very nice!

But for me it works properly only in a terminal emulator, proper GNU/Linux terminal (Ctrl+Shift+F1) can't display most of used symbols, it supports only ASCII.

aftbit
Neat! I noticed it seems to crash when I open telnet in a fullscreen terminal (alacritty on 2560x1440), but if I make terminal half-width, it works. I didn't realize you could pass mouse control over telnet - need to read some code now! Good hack.