[Talk-us] Parking rendering

[Steven Johnson]

To amplify what Serge said about Washington, no distinction was made for
the behind-the-house, 1-2 vehicle private space versus large public lots.
So if you were to look at the WashDC map, you'd be misled into thinking
there is parking everywhere! I rather like the suggestion of addressing it
through capacity, public/private, and access. Scale-dependent display would
help, as well.

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There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from
incomplete data.


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> I agree this should ideally be addressed at the data level. If all parking
> nodes had some capacity / access information, the renderer could prioritize
> for larger public parking when zooming out, for example. And entering every
> strip of street parking spots as parking in OSM does not make sense to me.
>
> As it is, it's probably better to have mappers being exposed to this
> 'over-parking' in some areas, so that we actually have this discussion.
> Whether that exposure should be on the main map or on a separate data
> dashboard is a non-issue until we actually have these data dashboards ;)
>
> Martijn
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Nathan Mills <nathan at nwacg.net> wrote:
>> > (I switched to talk-us for this reply because it doesn't touch on
>> import issues)
>> >
>> > I don't think it's so much a bug in the stylesheet as much as a bug in
>> the world we're trying to map. Many cities simply have excessive amounts of
>> parking and that shows up on the map.
>>
>> This is partially (though not entirely) a US "problem", and while we
>> can argue the issues around parking in general, the map clutter is due
>> to a combination of rendering issues and other problems.
>>
>> For example, in the Washington, DC area, there are many small, narrow
>> parking areas which are in reality just street parking that has been
>> improperly imported.
>>
>> I suspect that if we examine many areas where parking is so cluttered,
>> we will find some combination of rendering issues and data issues.
>>
>> The data issues will need addressing, then the rendering problems are
>> likely going to be fairly solvable.
>>
>> - Serge
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