[Tagging] parking spaces limited to cars (no busses, trucks, etc.)

[David Murn]

On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 15:10 +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Am 30.04.2011 um 12:10 schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer:
> 
> > 2011/4/29 Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de>:
> >> It appears that people have been using "car" as a key for this purpose.  Should I use that, and add an appropriate entry below motorcar=*?
> > 
> > 
> > -1
> > IMHO motorcar should be defined as automobile/car, and not be used as
> > a generic term including busses, hgv, goods and other. If we had car
> > and motorcar parallelly this would create a lot of confusion.
> 
> Then what would a proper classification look like?
> 
> According to tagstat:
> Tag             Usage
> vehicle         22618
> motor_vehicle   42743
> motorcar       209720
> car              1475
> bus             42842
> hgv             45609
> goods           16948
> 
> To properly represent German law (sign 251 "cars and other multiple
> tracked vehicles not allowed") we need a tag for all two-tracked
> vehicles (currently "motorcar"), plus we need tag specifically for
> just cars.

Maybe the alternative is to instead tag that its only suitable for
single-tracked vehicles (ie. access=no motorbike=yes) rather than trying
to figure out what isnt allowed?  From how I read the discussion that
seems to be the problem?

David