<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 21:00, Matthew Woehlke <<a href="mailto:mwoehlke.floss@gmail.com">mwoehlke.floss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><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">
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Interesting. By that criteria, I would think that <br>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/826561593" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/826561593</a> has on-street parking,</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Tough call. In isolation it looks like a parking lane, but it has markings</div><div>for car parking. On-street parking (at least where I am) doesn't usually</div><div>have that. However, when I switch to Virginia imagery (much clearer)</div><div>I see the parking extends around the corner. From the geometry,</div><div>I'd say that was a parking lot.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> but <br>
would you argue that all of Potomac Avenue <br>
(<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/686513005" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/686513005</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From the fact that parking spaces are marked, it's not a parking</div><div>lane, in my opinion. But this is OSM, opinions are divided on</div><div>everything, and this one is a judgement call. If there were no</div><div>cars parked there, you could drive over those empty</div><div>parking spaces (whether it would be legal or not is another</div><div>matter), but I wouldn't call it a parking lane.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> Pretend they don't exist. Map something else instead.<br>
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Alas, my end goal isn't just to map for the sake of mapping, but to have <br>
a map that is usable for another project :-). Right now, having as much <br>
parking mapped as possible is relevant to that objective.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>Ah. That makes life difficult for you.</div><div> </div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Actually, I did mean the six spaces on the west side of Broadway. I <br>
recommend looking at e.g. <br>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=22/38.52057/-77.29185" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=22/38.52057/-77.29185</a> for all of <br>
those, it will be easier to tell what's centered.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's a parking lot rather than on-street parking. At least, that's how</div><div>I'd map it. If no cars were parked you couldn't drive along it without</div><div>some turns. If you mapped the highway itself as an area, that</div><div>parking would be a pregnant bulge. This is how I handled a</div><div>similar one:</div><div> <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.08562&mlon=-4.65829#map=19/52.08562/-4.65829">https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.08562&mlon=-4.65829#map=19/52.08562/-4.65829</a></div><div><br></div><div>Somebody objected that whilst that looked right when rendered, when you examined it</div><div>in the editor it misleadingly implied that you could park with one end of your car blocking half</div><div>of the street. I did one car park which attempted to deal with that complaint:</div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.10572&mlon=-4.37367#map=19/52.10572/-4.37367">https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.10572&mlon=-4.37367#map=19/52.10572/-4.37367</a></div><div>but it looks so ugly that I doubt I'll do that again.</div><div><br></div><div>In the end, do what works for you and hope nobody else who comes across it</div><div>thinks it so egregiously wrong that they change it. At least not until you've</div><div>finished your project.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>