Happy Friday! We just released Rapid Editor v2.4 🎉

This release improves Rapid's text localization, and makes it easier to work with street-level data like Mapillary. Now you can inspect detected objects, such as traffic signs, crosswalks, bike racks, and more!

Try it! https://rapideditor.org/rapid#map=2.00/0.0/0.0&background=Bing

Changelog: https://github.com/facebook/Rapid/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Hey! I was interviewed by the Once A Maintainer blog, where we talked about Open Source, @openstreetmap , HOTOSM , and Rapid. Check it out! 🎉

https://onceamaintainer.substack.com/p/once-a-maintainer-bryan-housel

I’m excited to announce that today we released Rapid v2.3 editor for @openstreetmap The Rapid team has been busy working on this for the past few months - here’s 4 new features that we hope you’ll love… 🧵
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The http://AllThePlaces.xyz project scrapes the web to collect as many business locations as possible. In the latest weekly build, this data is now available in PMTiles format. Thanks @ian !
https://github.com/alltheplaces/alltheplaces/pull/5765

This means anyone can view this data as a custom layer in
Rapid Editor now. Try it!:
https://rapideditor.org/edit#data=https://data.alltheplaces.xyz/runs/2023-09-02-13-32-00/output.pmtiles&map=17.77/40.61867/-74.42286

Hey! The Rapid v2.1 map editor for @openstreetmap is released today! The @rapid team has been busy this summer and we’re excited to share some new features to supercharge your mapping..
Check our GitHub for the release details:
https://github.com/facebook/Rapid/discussions/993