The Rapid Editor
07/05/23 • 51 min
Rapid is a free open-source web-based editor for an OpenStreetMap. In the past the focus was on conflating AI-generated datasets with OpenStreetMap data but the future for this editor is conflating authoritative datasets with OpenStreetMap.
Humans are in the loop, people reviewing data authoritative datasets and adding them to OpenStreetMap with a few clicks!
So you might be wondering, what is Authoritative data? And perhaps it doesn’t even matter what authoritative means maybe the most important thing is it correct.
If you are interested in OpenStreetMap you might enjoy this episode
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/openstreetmap-is-a-community-of-communities/ which is a great introduction to OpenStreetMap as a project but also explains some of the commercial interest in updating the map which adds a lot of context to Rapid and its development and future.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
If you have not heard of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team this is well worth checking out!
Segment Anything
(SAM) can segment objects by simply clicking or interactively selecting points to include or exclude from the object. This makes it a user-friendly tool for image segmentation.
Mapillary
Mapillary is a platform that provides street-level imagery and map data from all over the world. The platform is powered by collaboration and computer vision, which helps in generating and maintaining up-to-date, detailed maps.
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/scaling-map-data-generation-using-computer-vision/
GeoSpatial Jobs!
Drone Deploy’s Earthworks team is looking for an experienced Back End Engineer Full time / Remote
NV5 is looking for a Senior GIS Analyst
Want to help? I could really use some support!
Some more episodes you might enjoy
ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science
QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
Rapid is a free open-source web-based editor for an OpenStreetMap. In the past the focus was on conflating AI-generated datasets with OpenStreetMap data but the future for this editor is conflating authoritative datasets with OpenStreetMap.
Humans are in the loop, people reviewing data authoritative datasets and adding them to OpenStreetMap with a few clicks!
So you might be wondering, what is Authoritative data? And perhaps it doesn’t even matter what authoritative means maybe the most important thing is it correct.
If you are interested in OpenStreetMap you might enjoy this episode
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/openstreetmap-is-a-community-of-communities/ which is a great introduction to OpenStreetMap as a project but also explains some of the commercial interest in updating the map which adds a lot of context to Rapid and its development and future.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
If you have not heard of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team this is well worth checking out!
Segment Anything
(SAM) can segment objects by simply clicking or interactively selecting points to include or exclude from the object. This makes it a user-friendly tool for image segmentation.
Mapillary
Mapillary is a platform that provides street-level imagery and map data from all over the world. The platform is powered by collaboration and computer vision, which helps in generating and maintaining up-to-date, detailed maps.
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/scaling-map-data-generation-using-computer-vision/
GeoSpatial Jobs!
Drone Deploy’s Earthworks team is looking for an experienced Back End Engineer Full time / Remote
NV5 is looking for a Senior GIS Analyst
Want to help? I could really use some support!
Some more episodes you might enjoy
ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science
QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
Previous Episode
PostgreSQL - Listen and Notify Clients In Real Time
The promise of digital mapping is to provide a shared and real-time view of the state of the underlying system.
pg_eventserv is a free and open-source component that helps fulfill the promise of real-time event modeling and shared views in PostgreSQL.
By connecting to PostgreSQL and listening on specified channels, pg_eventserv captures database notifications and forwards them to web clients, enabling real-time updates and synchronization of data displayed on maps or other web interfaces.
pg_eventserv does one thing and one thing only: take events generated by the PostgreSQL NOTIFY command and passes the payload along to waiting WebSockets clients.
pg_eventserv is free and easy to install and you can find it here: https://github.com/CrunchyData/pg_eventserv
What this means is that any client can watch for notifications and update as changes in the database happen.
Real-time data!
Here is a link to a Youtube video demonstration of pg_eventserv in action!
I will let Paul Ramsey the creator of pg_eventserv explain all this in more detail in this episode.
If you want to reach out to Paul the best place to do that is http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/
Or if you want to listen to previous episodes with Paul you might find these interesting
Raster in the database?
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/rasters-in-a-database/
Dynamic Vector Tiles Straight From The Database
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/dynamic-vector-tiles-straight-from-the-database/
Spatial SQL- GIS Without The GIS
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/spatial-sql-gis-without-the-gis/
also ... If you are interested in spatial databases at scale ... you might find this episode interesting
https://mapscaping.com/podcast/distributing-geospatial-data/
Some more episodes you might enjoy
ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science
QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
Next Episode
Felt - Upload Anything
felt.com is a browser-based mapping tool and its also a reminder that just because we have always done web mapping one way it doesn’t mean it always has to be done that way.
For example, Felt lets you upload anything! That's a bold promise, you can upload anything you want and we will figure it out on the back end.
Felt is also the first and only flagship sustaining member of the QGIS project, they are supporting the development of an open-source tiling engine, called Tippecanoe.
They also support protomaps and the development of PMtiles as well as contributing code to Maplibre and Gdal
... But that is not why you should listen to this episode ... you should listen to this episode because if we are going to grow the geo pie we need more upload anything buttons
Easily bring data into Felt with our QGIS plug-in and Felt API
How We Make Your Data Look Great at Every Scale with Tippecanoe
Some more episodes you might enjoy
ESRI, GIS careers, Geospatial Data Science
QGIS, Geospatial Python, ArcGIS Pro
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