[Tagging] parking

Randy rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 9 07:19:38 GMT 2009


Steve Bennett wrote:

>I think the goal is to give broadly useful information rather than to map
>all the subtle nuances. If I was driving somewhere and looking for a park, 
>I
>would first want to know about "parking=customer" locations, failing that,
>"parking=public", failing that, "parking=commercial". It might even be
>helpful to know about "parking=authorised" places, shown as a P with a 
>cross
>through or something, to know not to try and park there.
>
>I wonder if there be some kind of "parking=private" for things like parking
>spaces near apartment buildings, or spots inside company grounds, but there
>may not be enough distinction against "authorised".

I agree that useful is a good criteria, but there are times when 
"authorised" is not adequate. For example, different parking areas are 
authorized for different functional entities. Maybe I should know if my 
authrorization qualifies for a particular area, but there's a significant 
probability that I may not.


>One question though: is this really the best use of the "parking=" tag? How
>would you add information like motorcycle vs car parking,
>underground/covered/openair, secure/nonsecure...
I would consider openair as the default. How to handle the others needs 
thought. However,

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>
>Steve

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Randy





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