[Talk-GB] Tagging of private parking in gardens

[David Woolley]

On 03/01/2023 13:35, Robert Skedgell wrote:
> As well as Mateusz's suggestion of ensuring that it is access=private, a 
> new tag like parking=driveway rather than parking=surface might help 
> (preferably not rendered with a P by OSM Carto).

Where I live, it isn't just the driveway that is used for parking. 
Front walls are allowed to disintegrate, and invisible cranes are 
installed (it's illegal to drive across the pavement where there is no 
dropped kerb, so I don't know how else the vehicles park where the do 
:-().  Basically, it is common for most of the front yard to used for 
parking, even, if there is only a small section of dropped kerb.  Garden 
gates are an endangered species.

> Some data consumers might, for example, look at areas of land which
> might absorb rainwater vs contributing to runoff, or the amount of 

Most of them were constructed after the permitted development rules 
limited the size of ones that didn't use porous materials and drain to a 
soakaway, although I rather suspect that garden destruction companies 
fail to point this out.  As such I'm not sure that you could get 
anything but a worst case figure from mapping car parking areas.

Also some just park on the remains of the lawn.

> area used for storage of private cars.

Round me, they are quite likely to be LCVs, and there is even one 
mechanical digger.

I wonder if you should just map the area legally allowed for contact by 
tyres, or include the overhang, which can sometimes be most of the width 
of the footway.