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!…
🧚♂️ 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!
👨🦽➡️ 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 ⬆️
🌎 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.
👣 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
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!
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