Hello!

This is my first blog post and it will be about AI and how to use it to map buildings in New Zealand rapidly!

Some of you might already have heard that there is a better version of the iD editor available called Rapid editor (by Facebook) which is a lot faster than iD but uses the same user interface.

The cool thing about this editor is that it enhances the map with datasets that are AI generated and are suggested to you.

I have started mapping a lot of buildings in New Zealand in the last couple of weeks and I love how fast it goes.

Since there is still a lot to do, I would like to ask you for your help.

This is the link that brings you directly to the editor with the dataset already loaded: Rapid Editor

Get started by Login, zoom in, click on a yellow marked building and press a key to accept or d key to ignore (much faster than clicking on the button on the left sidebar). Some buildings need some adjustments as the AI suggestion is not 100% accurate but in my experience in 99% it is good.

More info about Rapid Editor can be found here: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2023/04/04/rapid2/

I’m looking to hear about your mapping experience!