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<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I would like to invite you to discuss a proposal for "parking =
street_side" for areas suitable or designated for parking, which
are directly adjacent to the carriageway of a road and can be
reached directly from the roadway without having to use an access
way:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/parking%3Dstreet_side">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/parking%3Dstreet_side</a></p>
<p>The proposed tagging can be used on separate parking areas as
well as with the parking:lane-scheme. It aims not only to
differentiate such street-accompanying parking areas from others,
especially "parking=surface", but also addresses a contradiction
in the current use of the amenity=parking and parking:lane-scheme,
which I would like to mention briefly at this point: the use of
"layby"/"lay_by".</p>
<p>The value "layby" was originally intended for forms of resting
places, as they seem to be especially common in rural areas of
Great Britain, Ireland or the US: short-stop rest-areas along
through-traffic roads intended for breaks during a car-trip (see
Wikipedia for a definition:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_area#Lay-bys">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_area#Lay-bys</a>). On areas with
"amenity=parking" this key is also used in this sense (and mostly
in Great Britain).</p>
<p>Within the parking:lane-schema, however, the value "lay_by"
(written with an underscore) has gained acceptance. According to
the Wiki, this value is defined identically to the layby's
mentioned above. Its actual use, however, differs from this and
includes mainly street-side parking, as we address them in our
proposal.</p>
<p>With our proposal, we also want to resolve this contradiction.
Above all, however, we would like to create more clarity about
different types of parking in order to be able to distinguish
between them.</p>
<p>looking forward to your opinions and discussions,<br>
- Alex - (and Jeroen Hoek, another author of this proposal)<br>
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