[Talk-GB] Tagging of private parking in gardens

Mark Goodge mark at good-stuff.co.uk
Thu Jan 5 13:49:02 UTC 2023



On 04/01/2023 10:43, Peter Neale via Talk-GB wrote:
> This strikes me as an issue for the renderer to address.
> 
> As I understand it:
> 
> 1.  Mappers are correctly mapping (in some cases, at least) the 
> existence of private parking spaces and taging these with "access=private".
> 
> 2.  The fact that Carto is then rendering these with a pale "P" is 
> leading (some) map users to think that they are public parking spaces.
> 
> 3.  The issue lies somewhere between the renderer and the users.

Is it actually a "parking space", though, or is it just "someone's front 
yard, that they happen to park their car on"?

Because those two things are *not* the same. Just because one use of a 
multi-use space is personal parking, doesn't make it a car park.

Mark



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