[Tagging] Parking fee only after some time period

[Andrew Harvey]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 19:32, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> In California, a common (not quite frequent, certainly not always)
> arrangement at malls, supermarkets and other places with parking lots
> (large and small) is a sign that reads "you can park here for three hours,
> but after that we have the right to tow your car away."  (Sometimes
> punctuated with 'video surveillance active' to make the point fairly direct
> and that "they mean business").  In my experience of driving-and-parking
> for many decades, I personally have never gotten towed (the few times I've
> gone over a time limit), I've never heard of anybody (that I personally
> know) getting towed, but I have seen the extremely infrequent tow truck
> towing a car that has likely been there a while — perhaps it was abandoned,
> used for illegal purposes or was otherwise a public nuisance.
>
> So, while that "moderately serious consequence" of getting towed is
> possible, it's rare.  And, while this is not a "fee," it certainly turns
> into a fairly large one once the bottom-line-costs, tow truck driver and
> storage charges (per day, usually) are added together and paid to get one's
> car back from the impound lot.
>
> If you are writing a proposal, this is a reality in certain parts of the
> world the proposal should consider, if it wants to convey the full
> situation (on Earth, in cars, with humans, on parking lots).  In short,
> what appears to be "simply" a fee can be fairly full-throated when it comes
> to describing the entire semantic richness of the situation.
>
> A tag like maxstay is a good beginning.  An additional tag of something
> like towing_penalty=yes|no is a start down this road.
>

I'd just use the regular maxstay tag, I think most places if you overstay
they can tow you.

`fee:conditional = no @ maxstay < 3h` says you're allowed by the rules of
the car park to park longer if you like, but you need to pay a fee to do
so. This is different to the rules saying you're limited to 3hr and then
issuing a fine or penalty for overstaying
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