I have never seen such parking, what sign is it? Having motorcar=designated (with access=no to forbid the parking for everyone else) is quite common on parkings, but the usual intention is to prevent hgv parking there, and these would be included in motor_vehicle.
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Just a big P with opening hours. De area has a fence around it, and only regular car parking spaces inside (some with chargers). So it’s the layout that says it’s for cars (and motorcycles I guess). hgv is not mentioned, but I think it’s in a zone where hgv’s are only allowed for loading/unloading, not parking.
I used the ohsome dashboard to get a grip on what kind of highways this curious motor_vehicle=designated appears in different regions.
In Europe it is mostly used in Finland, and there mostly on highway=tertiary and up. Maybe redundant, maybe fine.
Different picture in Germany: 1142km tracks of 1600km total; Austria: 74km tracks of 125km total. France and Spain also used a lot on tracks, but smaller percentage because used a lot on primary and up too.
I suspect it is very often used where the Vienna Convention sign “No motor vehicles allowed” is posted with an addon sign specifying exclusions.
I could now just change the translation in iD to make it obvious, that designated is much the same as yes. But that affects all access tagging. So I ask. Where to file issues regarding translations in iD? Should the German community be asked first?
PS: In JOSM the wizards do not offer the combination at all.
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ask German-speaking community and change translation
if translation of English message is following it and is still bad, then likely English message is bad - and issue at GitHub - openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema: 🆔🏷 The presets and other tagging data used by the iD editor should be filed
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Done asking the Germans. BTW in Poland – out of a total of ~460km of highways where it is found – this tag appears on 288km of tracks. It seems to be special to tracks there too.
motor_vehicle is not equal to motorcar, which is a subset of all motor vehicles. In your case motorcar = designated is appropriate.
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Looks like this is what happens on some cycleways in Finland. It’s not the correct local tagging convention, but the English wiki page for motor_vehicle doesn’t really point in the right direction in this situation.
No idea what’s going on with the tertiary and up highways, but I guess at worst the value is just meaningless there.
I’m struggling to imagine a legitimate use for this. Some kind of track intended for racing all kinds of motor vehicles, that isn’t restricted to customers?
I am struggling but I can imagine using it for say place=square entirely eaten by bunch of junctions.
It can be used on say highway=motorway or highway=tertiary but feels entirely redundant there.