[Tagging] Tagging proposal On Wheels app 3 - Parking spaces for wheelchair users

[Alan Mackie]

On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 19:04, Yves via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

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> Le 14 mai 2023 17:15:33 GMT+02:00, Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de> a
> écrit :
> >On 13.05.23 at 18:28 Marc_marc wrote:
> >> why not just add this information as amenity=parking_space geometry ?
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> >Indeed, amenity=parking_space is usually mapped as a polygon (over 94% of
> amenity=parking_space tags are on ways, according to Taginfo). This makes
> it possible to determine the dimensions with relatively simple calculations
> and it seems undesirable to duplicate this information as tags.
> >
> These two suggestions made me laugh a bit: everybody is not super accurate
> in drawing polygons, imagery has a resolution and I doubt a lot of mappers
> go trough a complete parking lot a measuring tape in their hands.
> On the contrary, estimating a width from one's car when you happen to
> really need to know is probably not far-fetched.
>
StreetComplete recently split their measuring tool out into its own
dedicated app recently so that is also an option if you're on Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.westnordost.streetmeasure

I imagine iOS has similar tools with its AR stuff.
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