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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/9/14 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/9/14 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>
>> Since they're buildings wouldn't using a building=* tag be more
>> accurate in describing them?
>
> Sure, they're buildings - but that just means a building tag should be
> used *in addition to* tags giving more details.

+1, they might as well have numbers if they are many. Please consider
that besides the buildings there is also lot of space to access them:
those are streets (and can therefore be tagged as highway, probably in
this case with highway=service). The garages themselves I would in
most cases consider to be part of a residential zone (therefore
landuse=residential is IMHO not wrong).

On the other hand, a specific tag could be used to describe them - I'm
not sure about this, as landuse in traditional mapping would be sth.
more generalized/bigger, whilst in OSM it seems to get quite small and
detailed/diversified. Sooner or later we should discuss / decide about
this.

cheers,
Martin