[Talk-GB] Tagging of private parking in gardens

[Mark Goodge]

On 03/01/2023 11:09, Donald Noble wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are a couple of private gardens in Edinburgh which are paved over 
> and used for parking. These are mapped as parking=surface, one of 
> which is also tagged access=private. Notes have been added questioning 
> if this is the best tagging, https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3314288 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3314288> & 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3314282 
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3314282>
> 
> Without wishing to remove detail, it is actually a private 
> parking space, I'm just wondering if there is a better way to represent 
> this without it appearing like a bigger carpark?

My personal opinion, FWIW, is that we shouldn't map parking spaces that 
are merely the forecourt or back yard of an individual private 
residential dwelling. Otherwise, if done consistently it's going to make 
the average suburban street look incredibly cluttered - most of the 
common renders will be littered with densely packed Ps all over the 
place in urban areas, and, while we don't map for the render, that kind 
of tag is pretty useless for data consumers as well. It's also 
meaningless for most residential properties, because, although parking 
may well be the most common use, almost all residential curtilages are 
multi-purpose.

I think it is useful, though, to map shared parking in residential areas 
(eg, parking for an apartment block), and also parking within the 
curtilage of a commercial property. In these cases, though, it does need 
to be tagged as private.

Mark