[talk-au] Roadside rest areas tagged as camp sites

[Andrew Harvey]

On 2 June 2017 at 18:48, Mark Pulley <mrpulley at lizzy.com.au> wrote:
> Quoting Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:
>
>> _Truck Parking_
>> Some places have had the name 'Truck Parking' applied to them (service
>> roads, parking areas and rest areas too). Not good.
>> My confusion here is does this mean truck only? I think other users may
>> have the same issue.
>> And some rest areas have a real name, so leading to this data being
>> removed.
>> The tag hgv=yes could be applied to the roads and rest areas to
>> indicate this, and it does not mean motor_vehicle=no.
>
>
> Some roadside parking areas are explicitly signposted as truck parking
> (rather than rest area) - I have often marked these as parking areas with
> name=Truck Parking (or similar - if it isn't otherwise named). I have no
> idea if cars are banned (there is no explicit sign saying they are, and I
> have stopped in these in a car at times).

Agreed with Warin, the name key is for the name only not a description
like "Truck Parking"
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only

I would go one step further and use hgv=designated on the
amenity=parking node/way to indicate that trucks are preferred in this
parking area and remove "Truck Parking" from the name. If car's aren't
explicitly signed as no, then leave off the motor_vehicle=no tag.