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

[zyphlar]

I don't. I do pleeeeeenty of my own in person and humanitarian mapping, and
like I said I've done a county-level import of where I live, but this is
one of the biggest retirement communities on earth: the only OSM user I've
been able to find who lives in this area is the person who's asking me to
help import this data because he's not skilled enough to do it on his own.
As much as I'd be happy to fly to Florida and spend a weekend driving
around retirement communities, I feel like copy pasting a hundred or two
properly-reviewed public domain nodes is probably better for everyone
involved.

On Wednesday, August 31, 2022, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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