As an outsider I don’t see clearly how much Rapid and iD editor are different.

How “hard fork” is the Rapid? I thought that the goal of the project was to only add AI related features to iD. But Rapid 2.0 beta announces things like better performance improvements, better label rendering, etc. These are general improvements not related to AI technology. Will they ever be backported to iD editor? Will we ever see this improvements in default editor on osm.org (iD editor)?

I see the main developer who works on Rapids also worked on iD in past. Which adds even more confusion. Why not contribute non-AI related changes to “upstream” iD editor project so the current users of iD editor get better experience and performance?

Can someone clarify these things too me?

He said that he wanted to map all the benches along the Camino. :D

Seems he has similar obsession like me ;) I actually started my OSM contributing by adding benches (and trash bins :D) in maps.me.

I wish you could also tell him to use Organic Maps which is free and open-source fork of maps.me. I would say with similar goals as OSM project (not for-profit community, focused on making totally open-source map app that uses OSM data).

After maps.me was sold some time ago to some South Korean payments company it’s getting worse and worse: https://telegra.ph/What-happened-to-the-old-MAPSME-12-20 https://telegra.ph/MAPSME-but-better-is-now-REALITY-11-01

It’s mostly visible in how often the OSM data is updated. Last time map.me got updated its OSM data was May this year and previously it was over one year without any updates.

Organic Maps updates OSM data at leat once in 2 months. So if this guy is using just map.me to add benches there is a bigger chance he might be adding benches that are already added to OSM. This can also happen in Organic Maps but at least the OSM data is much more up-to-date.