Fixed float parsing in clean_osm_data.py

[rsparks3]

Closes #1087 .

Changes proposed in this Pull Request

Changes _parse_float to use try/except instead of trying to detect the type and return based on that. The previous function did not accept inputs such as "3.0" because the python .isnumeric() function will return false.

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• Newly introduced dependencies are added to envs/environment.yaml and doc/requirements.txt.
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[davide-f]

Hello @rsparks3!
The formulation looks quite good to me!
Have you tested the impact into the tutorial?
In particular the difference between the older and new version?

Feel free to add a release note too

[rsparks3]

Thanks! The tutorial runs fine and produces similar results as the older version, but I have not closely inspected to see how many additional lines become a part of the finished networks. With the whole continent of Africa, however, it seemed to add about ~50-100 more lines.

[davide-f]

Thanks! The tutorial runs fine and produces similar results as the older version, but I have not closely inspected to see how many additional lines become a part of the finished networks. With the whole continent of Africa, however, it seemed to add about ~50-100 more lines.

Great! That is realistic and acceptable.
Merging as checks complete :)