[Tagging] Coach parking

[Anne-Karoline Distel]

Hi,

parking spaces for women are usually closer to the entrance to the shop,
so the rapist doens't get a chance to get you, if you're too far into a
vast parking garage and nobody can hear you scream. Or maybe just to
make you feel safer. Parents' parking is closer to the shop/ shopping
trolley return point, so your toddler doesn't have to walk too far or
you don't have to carry them all the way back to the car or leave them
unattended in the car, while you're returning the trolley. Both options
are quite common in Europe.

You're right about caravans/ RVs, that should be its own tag as well and
be rendered. For coaches, I'm in favour of amenity=coach_parking (or
"bus_parking", if people don't like the term "coach". This might be
easier for non-native British English speakers), since that's how it's
done with cars and bicycles.

On a cynical sidenote, we're gonna need "SUV_parking" soon, because they
take up so much space.

Anne

On 09/06/2023 10:52, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Anne- Karoline Distel <annekadistel at web.de> writes:
>
>> I came across a case where someone had added name=coach and name=car
>> to amenity=parking, which is obviously not how we do things [snip]
> I can't find it either.  I remembered that JOSM presets have a lot more
> detail than the wiki.  But I checked, and I don't see anything about
> "coaches" (which I think is the word in EU for what we Yanks would call
> "bus", a large vehicle that can transport say 40 people).
>
> In JOSM, I see
>
>    spaces overall
>    spaces for disabled
>    spaces for women
>    spaces for parents
>
> but the implication is that these are all car-sized.
>
> I find the women/parents strange, as I have never seen such spaces.  In
> the US pretty much everywhere has restricted parking for disabled only
> (one has to display a placard which is a government-issued license to
> use these spaces, needs a doctor's certification, likely similar
> elsewhere).  I am guessing they exist someplace though.
>
> The tags are e.g. capacity:parent=1.
>
> I mention this because one could easily extend and add
>
> capacity:coach=N
>
>
> Another approach would be, if the parking lot (en:GB: carpark er
> coachpark) is for buses/coaches only:
>
>   amenity=coach_parking
>
> This also brings up "Recreational Vehicles", abbreviated RV, which I
> think might be "caravan" in en_GB (in en_US, caravan refers to a group
> of perhaps related vehicles traveling together).  There are often spaces
> for those, as they don't fit in car spaces.
>
>
>