On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 15:26, Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24/07/2020 10.18, Paul Allen wrote: > > > > Sounds like the same thing, Near enough. Especially if some streets > > have signs saying "no parking at any time." > > Right; I didn't mean "we don't have on-street parking", I meant we don't > mark it like that. > Tomato/tomahto. :) > > Relatedly: I would call that "on-street parking". To me, a "parking > lane" is actually more like the NYC video I linked, i.e. a space that is > dedicated to *parking* and not intended to be used by through traffic. > That's my take on it, too. This is probably a large part of the confusion, as it seems that what > OSM calls a "parking lane" is what I would call "on-street parking", and > what I call a "parking lane", OSM considers a parking lot. > A lot of the documentation was written by people who don't have British English as a first language. You have to look at the pictures, too. > > >> BTW, this is what NYC apparently considers a "parking lane": > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJv4oleZAhQ > > > > That's a "floating parking lane," according to the video. > > Yeah, I don't know what "floating" means there. > You don't? It even explained it in the video. Or the description. Somewhere. The parking spaces are detached from the sidewalk because there's a bicycle lane between the two. > > > Looks to me like a parking lot adjoining a road at one side and > > adjoining a cycle lane at the other. I say this because of what is > > visible at the left of that "floating parking lane" - an obstacle. > > Even with no vehicles parked there, through traffic would be > > obstructed. Difficult to be sure, from the video, though. I'm glad > > I don't have anything like that around here, otherwise I'd have to > > figure out how to map it. > > It's pretty typical of what I'm dealing with in Quantico, though. We > seem to have come to an agreement to map this as a "lot". > It's how I'd handle the one in the video. But that's just me, bringing my own cultural assumptions and idiosyncrasies with me. And I'm very idiosyncratic. > > > Was there through traffic in the parking lane itself in the above video? > > I can state with some confidence that there isn't *intended* to be. > I don't recall seeing any. I don't want to use up more of my download limit checking, so I'm relying on my increasingly- defective memory. Again, I think we've agreed to treat that as a "lot". (Which I believe > is what I was trying to say, admittedly very badly, with the above.) > I think it's a floating parking lot not a floating parking lane. :) -- Paul
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