[Tagging] Proper parking lot separation

[Philip Barnes]

On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 21:57 +0900, John Willis wrote:
> I wish the parking lot tagging page took more of these issues into
> account when discussing how to tag them. HGV (trucks?), bus, and
> motorhome might need their own seperate parking amenity tags - having
> them spring from car parking via access seems really weird when cars
> are not allowed to use it. 
> 
No sure I understand this comment, we tag amenity=parking, not
amenity=car_park. Nothing in the basic tag says cars.

Bicycle parking is different, its not an area its a thing to chain your
bike to.

Phil (trigpoint)



> It's like tagging:
> 
> amenity=foo 
> foo=no
> Bar=yes. 
> 
> It should just be amenity=bar... 
> 
> 
> 
> Javbw
> > On Apr 28, 2017, at 8:59 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmai
> > l.com> wrote:
> > 
> > and for pregnant women (typically close to kindergartens)
> 
> Falls into the common - old-hurt-disabled-pregnant category (which is
> informal, compared to the legally defined handicapped person). Is
> there any "person" or "access" type for that group or those
> individuals beyond disabled/gender? 
> 
> Access:pregnant=yes
> Access:elderly=yes
> Access:assisting=yes (small kid or helping blind person) 
> 
> 
> 
> The interesting thing to come out all of this is that while we break
> down parking by vehicle types, we don't break it down for all
> vehicles.
> And while disabled parking is an almost universal feature, it is not
> "baked in" to the parking tagging methods. 
> 
> After the legally defined "disabled/handicapped" separation - then
> you get into all kinds of title/status ones (injured, pregnant,
> assisting) old people (with the clover mark symbol here), all
> centered around some kind of physical issue, 
> 
> And then women only (like certain trains in Japan or the
> aforementioned parking spots) for safety. There might also be
> different entrances for women in the Middle East based on cultural
> issues.
> 
> Trying to separate vehicle, handicap, and status into something
> coherent to tag is a giant hairball. 
> 
> 
> Javbw. 
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