Add ability to pipe in coordinates and have these show on map

[briangranatir]

A great use for this system would be to view events (or alerts) on a map. For example, I have traffic sensors distributed throughout a city. It would be nice if I could pipe in an array of {lat, long} pairs and have markers appear on the map. Then mapscii becomes a great starting point for any monitoring service.

Great project! Keep with it. Thanks.

[rastapasta]

Hey @briangranatir, thanks for checking in!

Winter is coming, with it finally more time to be devoted to mapscii - a STDIN GeoJSON input/source is on the top of the list, be it for the local client or even via telnet. Stay tuned and sorry for letting the project starve a bit atm - life. 🤷‍♂️ 😇

[Naheel-Azawy]

Hello! This is what really made me reach this. I have a script that outputs coordinates continuously that can be for one or multiple markers. What I need is to display markers on the map with different colors or shapes for every coordinate label and keep updating those on the map as they come from stdin.

If I get enough time I might implement this, but to be honest, I'm too lazy to dive and read the entire code for now... @rastapasta if you can only provide me with a lovely "setMarker()" function I guess the rest will be easy for me to implement. And if anyone can implement this entire thing all at once it would be a much grater satisfaction to my laziness!

[testbughub]

I would love this feature, because I have a GPS tracker for a vehicle that I can get the coordinates from via an API,
and I was thinking it would be a fun project to combine mapscii and the API into a cli app 😄