[Imports] Mini-import of roads and addresses in The Villages, Florida

[Jo]

Do you live nearby this place? If so, why not go out and survey the place
in the field. Then use the data to corroborate your findings. You'll find
it to be a lot more satisfying experience.

Jo

On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 3:25 AM zyphlar <zyphlar at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as I can tell, barely anyone outside of Eddie, the guy I'm talking
> with who operates "The Villages GPS" mobile app (which is one of the most
> popular GPS apps in the iPhone and Android app stores, and uses
> Mapbox/OSM!) cares about The Villages. I've hunted around and nearly all
> the data in the area has been imported by infamous repeat offenders like
> DenisCarriere and LogicalViolinist, or by casual mappers without close ties
> to the area.
>
> It turns out, residents of this area are woefully under-served by every
> other GPS app out there. This is perhaps Ground Zero for a unique street
> mapping challenge: it has one of the largest networks of golf cart paths
> possibly in the world, commingled with cycleways, footways, and streetside
> cycle lanes, and making a navigational mistake could be awful: we're
> talking about retirees in barely-safe vehicles possibly turning onto
> highways or turning out in front of cars, not to mention getting lost and
> confused. So I'm motivated to help where I can.
>
> I successfully completed my prior Sonoma County Building and Address
> Import. For this data however I think it's only a few newly-built
> neighborhoods that need to be added and so manual review of the data in
> JOSM in small couple-hundred-item batches is probably more effective than
> trying to be highly automated. This also allows for hand-tuning the final
> results.
>
> Here is the raw data and sample .OSM outputs I plan to begin importing
> again at a very small scale. The data is from Sumter County Florida and per
> the wiki all Florida government data is public domain. Phone calls to their
> GIS department confirm this. I'm happy to make a wiki page, it just seemed
> like a lot for what will probably be <5 changesets. I've also been chatting
> with Florida locals and in the import channel of OSMUS Slack.
>
> Data and samples and a writeup of the proposed import process here:
> https://is.gd/FNxnWv
> _______________________________________________
> Imports mailing list
> Imports at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/attachments/20220901/209ec64e/attachment.htm>