[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Additional parking types for amenity=parking

[Roy Wallace]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:53 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/13 Liz <edodd at billiau.net>:
>> In Australia these places are rarely used for cars. There are plenty of them,
>> and in any town there will be at least one or two of these areas with "self-
>> storage sheds". Some people will store cars in them, but you can store
>> anything non-explosive there. You cannot live there.
>>
>> So I like the landuse=garages rather than amenity=parking.
>> While landuse=garages is very specific,
>> because parking is too specific we would then have to have a landuse="sheds"
>> or "storage_sheds" to describe something that looks identical from the
>> outside.
>
> What about building=storage ?

Or amenity=garages? IMO if it's an amenity, it should be tagged
amenity. Have a look at current documented values of landuse=* -
they're not amenities (except maybe landuse=cemetery, which I think
should be changed to amenity=cemetery).