On Thursday 02 October 2008 05:16:41 Sven Rautenberg wrote: > Matias D'Ambrosio schrieb: > > I would like to mark certain streets as having metered parking, but I > > found no reference to it in the wiki, maybe we could decide on something? > > At least according to the system used in my city (Bahia Blanca, > > Argentina), and I think the country, this tag would apply to ways. Also, > > it has a time restriction (in my city the same applies to all metered > > parking streets, they are metered 7-20 or 8-20, I can't recall exactly). > > metered_parking=<boolean> or maybe with two hours separated by a dash as > > in 7-20 (I have no idea if this is allowed)? > > Your wish touches several unresolved topics of OSM tagging. > > a) Not all parking space is created symmetrical. It is more likely that > parking regulations depend on what side of the street you are. > Unfortunately we have not decided on how to tag "things connected to a > way, which are on one side, and that matters". Among these things are > cycleways, pavements, lanes per driving direction, etc. > It is not so here, it affects both sides equally. But I can see it being different elsewhere.
> b) Tagging of time-dependant features. Your example is easy, but it > simply is not enough to have a tag for "time_start" and "time_end", as > there might be the weekday influencing the times. > Indeed, I forgot it's different on weekends. > c) Hierarchical tagging. If you tag what time the parking meter has to > be used, those time tags are independent from every other tag. How can > it be made clear that those tags are for the parking meter tag, not for > the maxspeed tag? Does it make sense to invent > "parking_meter_start_time" to distinguish it from "maxspeed_start_time"? > > If you can come up with a tagging scheme (need not be great, just > sufficient for what you need to tag), just go ahead and do it. Expect to > change your tagging some time later after there has built a consensus on > the above questions. Your tagging until then might help finding a better > solution. > Alright, I'll resolve this in talk-ar (Argentina's list), until the overarching issues are resolved in OSM. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
