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

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Hi

Query re a bit of a different slant to rest areas.

Was looking at the map t'other day & noticed a Rest  Area marked off the
side of the Motorway, in what I thought was a rather strange spot?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-27.60146/152.87914

When I had a look via Google, there is in fact a Rest Area, *but* it's a
cycling Rest Stop on a dedicated bike way:
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-27.6011898,152.8786767,3a,75y,178.54h,89.01t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVIpnHTqrHHjEV2t-f0vQpw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en,
with apparently absolutely no facilities apart from a little bit of shade?

I've had a look at the cycling wiki's but couldn't see any reference to
cycle Rest Stop's?

It appears on the map, & also on my phone on OSMAND+ as a standard Rest
Area, which *could* be a trap for drivers planning a journey.

Anybody have any thoughts on best practice here?

Thanks

Graeme


On 3 June 2017 at 08:22, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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