[Tagging] Time limited parking without typical disk

Peter Elderson pelderson at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 16:55:03 UTC 2022


Parking disc is generally used for non-paid but time-limited parking. The
driver sets it to indicate the arrival time and displays it, so that the
parking police can check if time is up.

Fr Gr Peter Elderson


Op do 31 mrt. 2022 om 18:42 schreef Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:23 AM Sebastian Gürtler <
> sebastian.guertler at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Do you have a real example for this?
>>
>> If I want to use the information in osm for planning, then it would be
>> important to know whether I need a special app for parking or not. This
>> would be the important content of any tag.
>>
>> I know places where you can use an app as an alternative to an existing
>> ticket vending machine, which is not comparable to a parking disc -
>> which is free.
>>
>> This is already included in the wiki and tagged as
>> parking:condition=ticket
>>
>> I could imagine that there can exist private parkings where you would be
>> obliged to have a proprietary app for this place - this would need a
>> special tag; never seen that in real.
>>
>
> At the risk of sounding like a cultural imperialist:  from this side of
> the Atlantic, 'parking disc' isn't in my vocabulary.  I'm guessing it's a
> token for some sort of paid subscription for parking privileges?
>
> Parking where the only form of payment is a smartphone app is getting to
> be common in US cities.  There are several private lots near me that no
> longer have payment kiosks. Even the kiosks have been cashless for a while,
> but take only plastic.
>
> Lots of private lots are subscription-only, and usually have window
> stickers for their subscribers. Some government-run ones offer (paid or
> free) permit stickers for only their own residents.
>
>
> --
> 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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