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<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>regarding the parking:lane scheme and street-side parking, there
are some ambiguities, one of which I would like to address with
this post: There is the question of how parking
restrictions/conditions are tagged on separately mapped parking
spaces adjacent to the street (parking=street_side, parking=lane).
While there is an established tagging for parking mapped on the
highway line (parking:condition=*) and for parking spaces in
general (access=*, fee=*, maxstay=*, ...), there is no comparable
documentation for separately mapped parking spaces yet.</p>
<p>Obviously there are two different tagging schemes that exist in
parallel that could be applied to street side parking areas. This
is an unfavourable situation that we can accept and document
pragmatically or that we can resolve fundamentally. In my opinion,
the question of how to map parking conditions on street-side
parking areas shows the flaws of the parking:lane=* scheme, which
differs from common conventions and schemes, e.g. regarding
namespacing or the use of access tags. (An other problem, the
conditional issue, has already been addressed recently by an
approved proposal early this year.)</p>
<p>With this in mind, I see three possible solutions for tagging
parking restrictions/conditions on street level parking:</p>
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<li>We use the established tags for parking lots also on
street-side parking areas (access=*, fee=*, maxstay=*... and
their conditional restrictions).</li>
<li>We adopt the parking:condition=*-scheme for street-side
parking areas.</li>
<li>We fundamentally resolve this conflict by adopting the common
OSM access scheme to the parking:lane/condition scheme.</li>
</ol>
<p>I have illustrated these variants and some of their advantages
and disadvantages:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/parking_conditions_on_separately_mapped_parking_areas">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/parking_conditions_on_separately_mapped_parking_areas</a></p>
<p>...and wonder which variant would have the most support in the
community or what you think about it in general. Ideally, we will
gain an opinion on which of these variants should be
continued/proposed/documented.</p>
<p>Best, Alex<br>
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