How should I map an area of hard standing?

Garry_Patchett · 2019-06-27T09:09:48.000Z

What tags should I use for an area which is a large expanse of tarmac/concrete that is sometimes used to park vehicles on – but isn’t a parking lot – but can also be used as a general area to store large items – skips, portacabins, etc? Basically a general-purpose hard-surfaced area with no specialized zones that can be used for whatever the owner wants to do with it at any time. Like an airport apron but not at an airport and with no markings.

AlejandroAlba · 2019-06-27T11:31:01.000Z

Something like this?

Linear ways and areas
The tag highway=service predominantly describes a linear feature of a routable way. When mapped as a closed polygon without any further tagging, it describes a linear, circular way and not an area.

When the service road has an occasional widening, e.g. the paved area in an industrial estate, that can be mapped as a filled area by drawing a closed polygon, and adding area=yes. This area tag, however, should not be used to generally describe the shape or general width of a linear way, a few mappers use area:highway=service in addition to the linear way for this purpose.

( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dservice )

Garry_Patchett · 2019-06-27T11:49:04.000Z

Thanks for your reply Alejandro.
I didn’t realise I could use the area tag with this sort of thing.
I’ve marked one area with the following tags:
access=private
area=yes
highway=service
surface=asphalt
…and OSM seems to be fine with that. It now shows on the map as a large white area which is part of the service road it leads off.
So now I’ll look for the other similar areas and continue in that fashion.
Thanks again.