On 27/05/2010 22:09, Liz wrote: > rest area has been redirected to highway=services with a note to a Wikipedia > entry. > The wikipedia entry is huge and after much scrolling down the page it becomes > quite obvious that "Rest Area" has many meanings on highways worldwide. > While highway=services is well explained, redirecting other phrases to the > same point is not justified. > "Rest Area" signed on highways near me merely means that there is room to pull > off the road and park. Next available facility is a bin for garbage, sometimes > a picnic table, but it certainly does not mean highway=services. > rest_area has not been used for anything in OSM (yet) so directing it to a > particular tag is inappropriate.
In the UK, these would usually be known as a "lay-by". It may just be a space to pull over and park, or it may be more separated, with trees/grass between it and the road. And as you say, it may also have a bin or a picnic table, and maybe a burger van in the busier lay-bys. I've been thinking about the best way of tagging these. I've noticed quite a few of them near me have been tagged as amenity=parking, which is accurate, in that it is a place to park. Maybe also worth an extra tag to specify what sort of parking it is, eg parking=lay-by ? Some of them are also mapped with a short way tagged as highway=service (not highway=services !), to connect it to the main road. Craig _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
