[OSM-talk] Tag combinations: amenity and highway

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi Stephen.
If the combination amenity=bus_stop, parking=yes really is a 
park-and-ride station, you're right. But is that a correct 
interpretation for it?
In Germany p+r spaces are signed as such, and I'm not sure wether they 
are legally restricted to people who use the bus or train afterwards (if 
not stated as such directly, like it's sometimes the case at airports 
etc., where you have to put a corresponing parking ticket behind the 
front window).

So yes, it's useful to know about the park-and-ride stuff, but
1) I agree with you, that probably parking=yes is not the best way to 
tag that, and
2) (the more important question for me as a data consumer in this case), 
if that tag combination is correctly interpreted as a P+R facility.

regards
Peter

Am 14.06.2012 08:05, schrieb Stephen Hope:
> It is an important point of difference to train and bus stations/stops 
> as to whether they have a dedicated Park and Ride carpark or not. It 
> is something I would find useful if I was searching for station POI's. 
>  It's not just whether parking is nearby, but whether it's dedicated 
> to commuters - not something you can figure out just from how close 
> the parking is.  And it is information that belongs to the station, 
> not the carpark.
>
> On the other hand, I'm not sure that just adding parking=-yes on the 
> station/stop is the best way to tag this.
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On 13 June 2012 22:23, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I don't think that amenity=bus_stop parking=yes does make any sense.
>     You can park in a lot of places, shall we add parking=yes to all of
>     them? You can also chew gum there, should we also add
>     chew_chewing_gum=yes?
>
>     A parking is an area, a bus stop is more or less a point. If the two
>     are close, you can see this in the db (and potentially also, if there
>     are any linear barriers between them). IMHO there is no need or sense
>     in combining the two, but if I were to emphasize on a parking with
>     annected bus stop I'd see it as an extra property of the parking, not
>     the bus stop.
>
>     cheers,
>     Martin
>
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