[Imports] South KC address import

[teslas_moustache]

South KC address import

A map of Kansas City, MO is provided by the City at
https://maps.kcmo.org/apps/parcelviewer. My plan is to do a one-time
import of 1,605 addresses from that map. The Terms of use for the data,
and all data found on that site and data.kcmo.org is found here:
https://data.kcmo.org/terms and is as follows:

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The data is therefore, in effect, clearly in the Public Domain.

I have downloaded address data from an area on that map in the form of a
CSV file. The reason for the one-time import for such a small area is
that the server does not seem capable of creating any file much larger
than this. By the same token, my i3 processor and 8GB of RAM also
struggles to process such large text files.

I took that CSV file and used http://convertcsv.com/csv-to-geojson.htm
to convert the file to GeoJSON format.

Then, using the GeoJSONtoOSM command-line tool, I converted the
resulting GeoJSON file to .OSM format.

Then, with much trial and error and regular expressions, I formatted the
.osm file into multiple, readable lines (rather than the single line the
program spits out) and changed the keys and some values found in the
original CSV file to something usable by OSM.

The data are of addresses, *not parcels*. However, the coordinates of
the address-points appear to be generated at the approximate center of
each parcel. So, I made sure to manually shift as many points as I could
to the center of the footprint of each house based on Esri World Imagery
(clarity) Beta. I also deleted many points that were ambiguous, or did
not correspond to any visible/existing building.

I plan to follow up on this by drawing building footprints in the iD
editor and merging them with the imported points in the very near future.

Regards,

teslas_moustache

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