[OSM-talk] [tagging] access=license

[Andy Street]

On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 19:23 +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In the Netherlands there's a number of parking lots where you can only
> park 
> if you have a valid parking license from the local government. 
> 
> Parking lots of this kind are common enough (in inner cities) that
> they have 
> their own official traffic sign (number 9 at [1]), but there's
> currently no 
> good way to tag them.
> 
> The proposal is to add the new value 'license' to the 'access' key.
> Parking lots of this kind would then be tagged with:
> - amenity=parking
> - access=license
> 
> Comments?

+1

This could also be useful outside of parking too. Close to where I live
is an area of forest which is signed as  "horse riding by permit holders
only". Currently it's tagged as horse=permissive but this new tag would
be a more accurate description.

Regards,

Andy