<div dir="ltr">On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 22:33, Skyler Hawthorne <<a href="mailto:osm@dead10ck.com">osm@dead10ck.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div>There are
certain residential areas where there are designated parking spots,
either for individuals or guests, that are accessible from a road, but
are not necessarily a "parking lot" where it would make sense to have a
service road go through it. Here is an
example:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/788283564" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/788283564</a><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are no good ways (that I know of) to handle this. There are ways of</div><div>handling it but all have various numbers of people objecting to them for</div><div>various reasons and with various degrees of vehemence.</div><div><br></div><div>Bearing in mind that the map is an imperfect representation rather</div><div>than reality itself, what I have done is extend the parking area so that one side</div><div>of it is coincident with the road. <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/802286085">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/802286085</a></div><div><br></div><div>There are objections to this in that it could be inferred that cars can park</div><div>with their bodies overhanging into the middle of the road, although I doubt</div><div>many users would read the map as implying that. I think it better than the</div><div>map indicating that the cars must hop like a kangaroo to get to the parking</div><div>area.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>