[OSM-talk] Mapping Parking Lots

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> Am 12.01.2016 um 01:22 schrieb Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com>:
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> I notice that some times just the part of a parking lot where cars may park is mapped [1]. In other cases the entire lot, including the lanes between rows of cars, has been mapped [2]. The wiki [3] doesn't specify which is preferred, but seems to suggest [2] is better.  What do you think? 


to me, amenity =parking is a "piece of parking" (typically with a name, etc.), including the roads within, also multiple levels, if you want to map singular parking lots (or groups of them, or parking possibilities outside of a parking area, like lots along the road), use a different tag, e.g. amenity=parking_space http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=parking_space or a lane tagging system.


cheers,
Martin