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Rapid v2.5 released today!

Posted by bhousel on 23 December 2024 in English.

Rapid v2.5 released today!

Happy Festivus from the Rapid Team! Today we released v2.5 of the Rapid editor for OpenStreetMap just in time for the “Feats of Strength” 💪

Here’s 4 new features that we’re really proud of!… lets rumble

🧚‍♂️ Pixi v8 Upgrade!

We upgraded Rapid’s render to use the latest version of PixiJS game engine. This version gives Rapid a welcome performance boost - if you’ve aired any grievances about Rapid being laggy, the new Rapid should perform much better for you!

buildings and addresses

👨‍🦽‍➡️ New Curb Validator

Rapid can now detect whether curb ramps can been mapped at road crossings and prompt the user to add them with a one-click fix. These suggestions look different from the previous warnings raised by our validator - they show up with a small upgrade symbol ⬆️

adding missing curbs

🌎 New Overture Places Dataset

Another Festivus miracle! Overture Places is an open dataset of over 50 million places. We’ve added this dataset to Rapid as a read-only preview to make it easier to contribute missing businesses and points-of-interest to OpenStreetMap.

Overture Places

👣 New Open Footways Dataset

Meta has collected openly licensed data in 5 cities (more to come!) to make it easy to add missing sidewalks to OpenStreetMap. You can find this new dataset in the Rapid menu too!

Read more here: https://github.com/facebookmicrosites/Open-Mapping-At-Facebook/wiki/Footways-FAQ

open map data footways

Use Rapid!

☝️ Switch to Rapid! Bookmark https://rapideditor.org/edit and make it your editor of choice. ✌️ Want to help us make Rapid better? Follow us on Github at https://github.com/facebook/Rapid or find us on our social media or OpenStreetMap community channels.

And now, the airing of grievances!

feedback

Discussion

Comment from Omnific on 27 December 2024 at 05:08

Really excited to hear about the continued upgrades + improvements! Thanks to you all for the hard work :)

Comment from Awoobis on 2 January 2025 at 22:56

Rapid and the data it offers to mappers is great

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