[OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

[Paul Jaggard]

Hi

I think every parking area should be rendered, certainly, but I don't think
the "permissive" parking areas should be labelled with an additional [P]
icon.

If you're looking at the map driving in to a town, you'd want to see the
main public car parks you can head into and park.  If we put [P] icons on
every car park, we'd have dozens and dozens of icons - at every pub,
restaurant, supermarket and shop with a space to park round the back.

Better just to label the main car parks in a town; the other areas will
still be visible on the map to people who are looking for them, but they
won't clutter up the map.

Or, look at it this way.  A public car-park will have a [P> sign pointing to
it from the road, so put a [P] icon on the map.  "Customers only" (i.e.
permissive) car-parks don't, so don't.

Cheers

Paul.


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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:41:43 +0100
From: Mario Salvini <salvini at t-online.de>
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas
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IMHO there should be a P-Icon in every Parking-Area! Because this areas 
are also potencial targets for OSM-user.
To differ public from private P-areas visually, maybe we can add a 
little key-symbol to the right-bottom corner of the parking-symbol.

permissive parking-areas (supermarket, hotels, etc.) should also get a 
normal P-symbol, if parking is allowed for everyone, otherwise -> 
"privateParking"-symbol

--
mario