[OSM-talk] Mapping Parking Lots

[malenki]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:45:43 +1100,
Warin wrote:

> On 12/01/2016 11:22 AM, Mike Thompson wrote:
> > 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?
> >  
> And sometimes it is just mapped as a single node.

Obviously the most mappers seem to haven't found amenity=parking_space –
which I don't regret. 
I stumbled over it just recently because a newby mapper used it on a
parking lot wrongly, perhaps due to the poor German translation
in iD which made it nearly indistinguishable from amenity=parking (I
fixed that). 

> Of course more detail is preferred. Some lack the time available to
> plot the whole thing .. and simply mark it with a node. And any of
> the 3 cases is 'correct'.

I agree with that.