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ASCII art reaches Google Maps

ASCII Maps is an interesting way to apply the functionality of the Google API, representing the geometries with the characters of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII).

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For those who saw green letter monitors, we can remember that it was a challenge for computer instructors in order to familiarize ourselves with 128 characters although some were not printable.

                  Function Key / __n___ II _________ Main _ II Floppy disk I ___ I Storage II 'I = (___) = I - Application Software III I_ / / __ I III INPUT ~~ ~~~ (____) I | / __ / II I___________ I (___ / ___________) - User Interface Debugging Tool (__ I __ I / II / - Central II) / Processing II OUTPUT - I (Unit.-._ II I _________ `, o_oo'_) II ~~~~~ *** &% ~ `._` ._ II ### @ ^ &&& `, / __ ._____._ &&& %% ## - Overflow // _ (_) _ / ~~~ ~ I o) (I / O error) ~~ (_____, - 'Mouse Backup System

Today of that, only the emoticons remain although very few look like they were originally Awesome.

Well, although this application will remain in this, an ode to melancholy, we thank the friends of Poly9 and Dani who told us about it.

Golgi Alvarez

Writer, researcher, specialist in Land Management Models. He has participated in the conceptualization and implementation of models such as: National Property Administration System SINAP in Honduras, Management Model of Joint Municipalities in Honduras, Integrated Cadastre-Registry Management Model in Nicaragua, Territory Administration System SAT in Colombia . Editor of the Geofumadas knowledge blog since 2007 and creator of the AulaGEO Academy that includes more than 100 courses on GIS - CAD - BIM - Digital Twins topics.

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