[Tagging] How to tag parking area where it doesn't make sense to have a way go through it

[Paul Allen]

On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 22:33, Skyler Hawthorne <osm at dead10ck.com> wrote:

> There are certain residential areas where there are designated parking
> spots, either for individuals or guests, that are accessible from a road,
> but are not necessarily a "parking lot" where it would make sense to have a
> service road go through it. Here is an example:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/788283564
>

There are no good ways (that I know of) to handle this.  There are ways of
handling it but all have various numbers of people objecting to them for
various reasons and with various degrees of vehemence.

Bearing in mind that the map is an imperfect representation rather
than reality itself, what I have done is extend the parking area so that
one side
of it is coincident with the road.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/802286085

There are objections to this in that it could be inferred that cars can park
with their bodies overhanging into the middle of the road, although I doubt
many users would read the map as implying that.  I think it better than the
map indicating that the cars must hop like a kangaroo to get to the parking
area.

-- 
Paul
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