[Talk-GB] Tagging of private parking in gardens

[Jon Pennycook]

Similarly, should we tag pavements as amenity=parking given that is how they are used? And how do we distinguish between people using their driveways to store motor vehicles from those who store materials of their trade, or plants in pots, or artificial plants in pots, or even store nothing on them?
I don't know how much of the parking areas mapped in Crowthorne at https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.37392&mlon=-0.82582#map=19/51.37392/-0.82582 are actually used for vehicle storage.

Personally, I think the most that ought to be mapped for single family houses is the driveway (ie the link to the public highway), the buildings, and maybe fences/walls, as the garden area is easily and rapidly changeable by the owner, unlike the buildings and the dropped kerbs which are fairly static.

Jon


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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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