On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Isaac Wingfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> But now another question: It appears that quite recently, a > considerable part of both of those church properties have been > relabeled to "amenity: parking", but I don't see how that can be > right. That's probably because some bored nitwit looking at the aerial photography observed what appears to be a paved area with little lines painted along the perimeter of the paved area in a regular pattern. Those areas delineated by the lines appear to be about the right size for a passenger vehicle to fit inside, and it appears that indeed in at least some cases cars are actually parking in those spaces. >From the description on the amenity:parking page: *** A parking lot is an area reserved for parking cars, trucks, motorcycles etc. Parking spaces along streets are currently not tagged. Only parking lots of reasonable size are mapped, not every place where a car could be parked. The distinction between public parking lots, customer parking lots (such as at cinemas etc.), and private parking lots (such as for staff in a business park) is handled with access=* tags. *** > The area is certainly not equivalent to a public parking area > (which the blue "P" icon now on them suggests); it's church property > and intended only for church use. So why is it proper to label it as > "parking"? The blue "P" icon might suggest public access parking to you, but perhaps just parking to others. The blue "P" icon is only one renderer's interpretation of the parking amenity tag. The church property perimeter is tagged on the map, and the parking area described is fully contained within that property. Why would one assume that a parking area contained within the church property to be a public parking space? I guess if you really get down to it, there are no public parking spaces anywhere. If someone has gone to the trouble of creating a parking area, someone will have some claim of ownership. Psuedo-public parking lots in the city are usually owned by a parking lot company, or the city, or some other entity. Usually with restrictions which might include payment requirements, or at the very least maximum occupancy time restrictions. Parking areas are usually created for the people accessing the nearby amenities as a place to leave their vehicles, so really all parking lots should be labelled as access:destination, even though the access:destination wiki entry talks about that tag being applied to ways and not areas. Feel free to delete the parking areas. When one looks at the map of the churches, they might think they would have a long walk ahead of them as there's not much room on the streets for the attendees to leave their vehicles. I would think that showing the onsite parking to be a good thing. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
