NORAD map?

so say i wanted to be a show off and make a map of the United states norad style on a large screen like so:



what would be involved in making such a "program"

It's going to look horrible with the resolution of computers in computercraft, but oh well…

A table with the coordinates of all the lines (hardcoded)
A for loop, looping trough that table and calling "paintutils.drawLine()"

Or

A image made in the in-game paint, and then "paintutils.drawImage" to draw it on the screen.

Look up those functions on the wiki for usage info.

really I thought that adv computers would have a higher res then regular computers i havent played minecraft in a long time so i could be wrong

You can always reduce the text scale of the monitors, with monitor.setTextScale(scale) after wrapping it.

And you can also use ASCII art to make lines.

oh ok im a bit of a noob so what would the coding look like?

http://computercraft.info/wiki/Paintutils_(API)

local mon = peripheral.wrap( "side" ) --#replace side with whatever side it is on, eg. "right"
term.redirect( mon ) --#we want paint to render on the monitor
mon.setTextScale( 0.5 ) --#minimum setting for maximum resolution
--#assuming you have a painted image
local norad = paintutils.loadImage( "myImage" )
paintutils.drawImage( norad, 1, 1 )
--#if you do not have a painted image, you will want to run the paint program on your monitor with the scale set to 0.5  eg:
--#monitor right paint myImage (NOTE: this is not tested, I'm not sure if it will work correctly)

Something like this using the paintutils api.