Next up: Shaping the Future of Non-Motorized Mobility – How Transportation Data Tools Shape Discovery, Access, and Travel Experiences with some familiar names: Brian Ferris, Google, Bryan Housel, @bhousel.bsky.social, Open source contributor, Eric Plosky, MobilityData, Bill Howe, UW #OpenPath2025
DMs open, or find me on:
github.com/bhousel www.linkedin.com/in/bhousel/
Sad news - Meta is cutting their budget that includes the work I do on Rapid, so I’m looking for a new job.
If you’re looking to hire someone remote/NYC with solid frontend skills, particularly maps, dataviz, WebGL (but I’m open to anything interesting), let’s talk!
The Gulf of New Jersey
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✌️ Want to help us make Rapid better? Follow us on Github at github.com/facebook/Rapid or find us on our social media or @openstreetmap.bsky.social community channels. And now, the airing of grievances!
6/6
👣 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.bsky.social . You can find this new dataset in the Rapid menu too!
Read more here: github.com/facebookmicr...
5/6
Browsing Overture Places around Wildwood, NJ
🌎 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.bsky.social
4/6
Adding missing curb ramps around Philadelphia, PA
👨🦽➡️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 ⬆️
3/6
Rapid Editor displaying buildings and addresses around Atlantic City, NJ
🧚♂️ 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!
2/6
Happy Festivus from the Rapid Team! Today we released v2.5 of the Rapid editor for @openstreetmap.bsky.social just in time for the “Feats of Strength” 💪 Here’s 4 new features that we’re really proud of! … 🧵 1/6
