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rmf_traffic_editor

  • Software
  • Middleware
  • Tool

A graphical editor for annotating building floorplans with traffic lanes, plus Python tools that turn the saved map into simulation worlds and navigation graphs.

Made by open-rmf.

Source on GitHub: github.com/open-rmf/rmf_traffic_editor (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit f0c439b (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit f0c439b (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Provides a GUI called traffic_editor for sketching floorplans and annotating them to define traffic patterns.
  • Generates Gazebo or Ignition simulation world files from a saved building map file.
  • Downloads the simulation models used by a building map.
  • Produces navigation graph files from a building map for traffic planning.
  • Includes a ROS 2 node that serves building maps using rmf_building_map_msgs.
  • Is organized as a collection of ROS 2 packages built with colcon.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit f0c439b.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate
Hardware it needs, as the project states it
It only lists the Python dependencies python3-shapely, python3-yaml and python3-requests needed by rmf_building_map_tools.

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
12 Oct 2026 on main
Latest release
None published on GitHub

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Robots that can run it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

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