A possibility: bicycle_rack=yes/no?

On Sun, Feb 2, 2020, 17:04 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/2/20 5:34 am, John Willis via Tagging wrote:
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> Bicycle parking is full of different kinds of stands.
>
> “Floor” is Currently the the lack of anything - just an open area to park.
>
> But
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> A) “floor” doesn’t mean “lockable” or not. All the others describe stands and 
> poles and whatnot, but  ** “Floor” doesn't explicitly mean “no locking 
> affordance” -  It’s implied.** The same is true for =surface or =ground or 
> =flat.
>
> B)  A designated painted square of outdoor asphalt with a bicycle painted on 
> the ground is the same thing as the well established parking=surface - but 
> somehow requires a Different word for bikes? **that is inconsistent.**
>
> A large majority of bike parking in Japan/Asia is this type of parking. 
> Stands/two-tier are common in urban paid parking/schools/apartments, but ~80% 
> or more are just designated flat ground with a sign - just like a parking 
> lot. The bike parking I map most often is this type - formal, painted, 
> designated flat ground for bike parking with no stands, loops, rails, or 
> anything else for all the bikes to be chained to, covered=yes or not.
>
> C) “floor” is used for indoor building location descriptions. (layer is for 
> separating logically overlapping data features, not for this). “Floor” 
> implies indoors to me. Outside doesn't have a floor. the “ground slots” value 
> isn’t called “floor slots”.
>
> These 3 reasons make it a poor choice over The well established parking value 
> =surface, and since they are basically the same, I think we should use the 
> same tag value for both.
>
>  I agree that it is a poor tag.
>
> But it will not be replaced by the surface key as the tag represents 2 
> things. Until the tag can be replaced by tags that indicate both those things 
> then this tag will remain.
>
> In this case the OSM meaning of 'floor' does mean 'not lockable' and a flat 
> area.
>
> So .. develop a tag to indicate that 'lockable' or 'non lockable' capability 
> and then the surface key can also be used, thus replacing 'floor'.
>
>
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> Javbw
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> On Feb 1, 2020, at 11:07 PM, Florimond Berthoux 
> <florimond.berth...@gmail.com> <florimond.berth...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think it's not exactly the same feature, one thing interesting in the 
> bicycle_parking for cyclist it to know if you can secure your bike.
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