[Tagging] Parking for businesses..

[Roy Wallace]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Seventy 7 <seventy7 at operamail.com> wrote:
>> > Use access=permissive instead of access=customer and you get what's in
>> > use for years.
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Access says access=permissive means
>> "The owner gives general permission for access."
>>
>> This doesn't seem consistent with parking restricted to customers. Do
>> you think this is a problem? I think, if access=* is to mean something
>> different when applied to a parking lot, I would like the wiki to be
>> updated to be more explicit about it.
>
> I think access=permissive is the right tag, but the wording in the wiki could be improved and a convention for parking agreed.
> eg "The owner gives general permission for access but where there is no public right of way. For example, use of a car park by customers only or permission to walk across a field"

Be careful. I think some "public" carparks, e.g. multi-storey parking,
open 24 hours a day, charging a fee, run by a private business, are
access=permissive.

> For car parks:
> Use access=yes for public parking, access=permissive for customer parking and access=private for staff parking, or whatever.

I do agree that a convention for parking should be specified. But I
DON'T think we should use access=permissive simultaneously with two
very different meanings:
1) (wiki definition) privately owned land, for example by a business,
with general access allowed to anyone
2) (the proposed parking-specific definition) access allowed to customers