[OSM-talk] metered parking

[Matias D'Ambrosio]

On Thursday 02 October 2008 05:16:41 Sven Rautenberg wrote:
> Matias D'Ambrosio schrieb:
> >  I would like to mark certain streets as having metered parking, but I
> > found no reference to it in the wiki, maybe we could decide on something?
> > At least according to the system used in my city (Bahia Blanca,
> > Argentina), and I think the country, this tag would apply to ways. Also,
> > it has a time restriction (in my city the same applies to all metered
> > parking streets, they are metered 7-20 or 8-20, I can't recall exactly).
> >  metered_parking=<boolean> or maybe with two hours separated by a dash as
> > in 7-20 (I have no idea if this is allowed)?
>
> Your wish touches several unresolved topics of OSM tagging.
>
> a) Not all parking space is created symmetrical. It is more likely that
> parking regulations depend on what side of the street you are.
> Unfortunately we have not decided on how to tag "things connected to a
> way, which are on one side, and that matters". Among these things are
> cycleways, pavements, lanes per driving direction, etc.
>
 It is not so here, it affects both sides equally. But I can see it being 
different elsewhere.

> b) Tagging of time-dependant features. Your example is easy, but it
> simply is not enough to have a tag for "time_start" and "time_end", as
> there might be the weekday influencing the times.
>
 Indeed, I forgot it's different on weekends.

> c) Hierarchical tagging. If you tag what time the parking meter has to
> be used, those time tags are independent from every other tag. How can
> it be made clear that those tags are for the parking meter tag, not for
> the maxspeed tag? Does it make sense to invent
> "parking_meter_start_time" to distinguish it from "maxspeed_start_time"?
>
> If you can come up with a tagging scheme (need not be great, just
> sufficient for what you need to tag), just go ahead and do it. Expect to
> change your tagging some time later after there has built a consensus on
> the above questions. Your tagging until then might help finding a better
> solution.
>
 Alright, I'll resolve this in talk-ar (Argentina's list), until the 
overarching issues are resolved in OSM.