[Talk-GB] Tagging of private parking in gardens

[Jon Pennycook]

An example of maximal tagging of parking in residential areas for reference:-
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.37524/-0.82402


Jon

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From: Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk>
Sent: 03 January 2023 14:35
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Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of private parking in gardens

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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
...
> 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

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