[Talk-GB] Tagging of private parking in gardens

[David Woolley]

On 04/01/2023 14:52, Martin Wynne wrote:
> 
> I can see that the hard-standing where I choose to park my car on my own 
> residential property might be mapped as land_use=vehicle_space, but how 
> does it become an "amenity"?

It is an amenity to your household.

> 
> For residential properties I can't see any reason to map any part of it 
> as a Car Park.

Although it's not something that I'd give priority, maps are used for 
more than the typical W H Smith's customer uses them for.  They record 
social trends, and one of those (unfortunately in my view) is the 
takeover of front gardens by what are, essentially, car parks.

> 
> For commercial properties it is obviously useful to know that there is 
> parking space for customers, and presumably businesses would welcome a P 
> to indicate that.

You are looking at this from the man in the street's way of using maps, 
not from a professional point of view.