[FEAT] / [MORE PRIMITIVES] Geo Filters from the literature or ML-powered ones are needed!

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Describe the Feature Request

Currently, the preprocessing module's filter submodule consists of a default filter that naively drops records outside the queried road network out of OSMNX.

I strongly believe that for the sake of being more flexible and showing more filtering techniques, more are required.

Describe Preferred Solution

1. From popular techniques in the literature. GIS-related.
2. Machine-learning-powered ones.
3. Let's innovate new techniques.

A new filter simply needs to be inherited from https://github.com/VIDA-NYU/OSMNXMapping/blob/main/src/osmnx_mapping/modules/preprocessing/filters/abc_filter.py to be integrated within the OSMNxMapping workflow.

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