Feature Proposal - RFC - parking:position

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Hey all,

I would like to take the opportunity of the new forum to mention a new proposal: Let’s simplify the tagging of parking lane positions (e.g. “on street” or “on kerb”). We have an established tagging for parking lanes (parking:lane=*), which allows to map the orientation and position of parked vehicles on the road. The proposal aims to change the position tagging by using the key parking:lane:<side>:position instead of the current unnecessarily complicated notation parking:lane:<side>:<type>. This could be a next step to further improve the existing parking:lane scheme and make it more applicable.

In addition, for separately mapped street parking areas (amenity=parking + parking=street_side/lane), an equivalent tagging for the position of the parking area is proposed (parking:position=*).

For details, see the proposal wiki page. Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page.

Best, Alex

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I wonder if it might be better to have two separate proposals for this. People might vote no because they don’t like one of them.

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Yes, that’s possible, but would hopefully become visible in the RFC. As this are very similar issues, I wanted to keep the discussions together and the effort more manageable. Let’s see.

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I’m not very familiar with this detailed parking tagging, especially because it is not that easy. As pointed out by other mappers on Wiki, I would encourage to move this proposal further to maybe a complete renewal of parking scheme. I understand this conservative approach but given that this will change a couple of things, better to do this once than twice. Anyway, I support this so far, congrats!