[OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

[Tom Chance]

Hello,

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:00 +0000, matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
> Personally, my ideal is to:
> 
>  - tag all parking areas with an area
>  - tag only public car parks with a node
> 
> This means that you can easily see the places you can park
> your car because of the car park symbol, but the
> "private"[1] car parks for residents in housing estates,
> etc, are not marked out so prominently.

Agreed that this is an important distinction, and that your current
method works with t at h (I do the same). But we should really tag them
properly by adding something like "access=private/public" to:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Parking

Kind regards,
Tom