[Talk-GB] Tagging "free for first N hours" car parks

[Mark Goodge]

On 19/02/2021 12:19, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 16:16, Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> a quirk in
>> UK law means that the penalty for exceeding the time limit in a private
>> car park has to be couched in terms of a civil contract, which doesn't
>> allow the use of the word "penalty". Nonetheless, it's just as valid and
>> just as enforceable,
> 
> Except for all the occasions - many well documented* - where the
> supposed charge is issued improperly, and is not enforceable. Never
> pay one without checking** [off topic for this list, but a point worth
> noting]

That's not the point, though, as far as OSM is concerned. We can't map 
that, any more than we can map where double yellow lines are faded and 
unenforceable or a TRO hasn't been correctly applied.

>> and should be mapped in the same way.
> 
> Yes; but how?

I don't know what the precise tags are, without looking at the wiki. But 
whatever the tags are for free parking up to a specified maximum length 
of time, that's how it should be mapped.

Mark