On 24-10-2020 15:11, Paul Allen wrote: > As rendered it appears you need a skyhook or > a cargo helicopter to park. Not good. You're probably as unhappy with that > method of tagging as I am.
True, but the same goes for lots of points-of-interests and other mapped parts of the urban landscape; e.g., patches of grass, shrubs, benches, bicycle parking areas, etc. In all these cases mapping the exact area results in a neat map that makes sense for orientation as well as finding parking spaces for motorists in the neighbourhood. While being able to route exactly onto a point-of-interest is valuable in some cases, for the use case of this proposal I would say that it is not as relevant. Besides, if someone really wants to navigate to a specific mapped street-side parking area, their router will tend to route to the nearest point it can get too, which more often than not will be right in front of the parking area. This proposal provides tag-values for a common type of parking area already mapped in great quantities, and hard to ignore at a certain level of detail. It gives mappers a way to map them without bending existing tags (e.g., parking=surface, parking=layby), and it eventually gives renderers a way to de-emphasize them (the proposal has a few suggestions) compared with the more 'high-value' parking facilities like large capacity public parking=surface|multistory|underground. If applied consistently, this proposal will increase the relevance of parking areas that really are parking=surface|layby|etc. Kind regards, Jeroen Hoek Co-author of this proposal _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
