In California, a common (not quite frequent, certainly not always) arrangement at malls, supermarkets and other places with parking lots (large and small) is a sign that reads "you can park here for three hours, but after that we have the right to tow your car away." (Sometimes punctuated with 'video surveillance active' to make the point fairly direct and that "they mean business"). In my experience of driving-and-parking for many decades, I personally have never gotten towed (the few times I've gone over a time limit), I've never heard of anybody (that I personally know) getting towed, but I have seen the extremely infrequent tow truck towing a car that has likely been there a while — perhaps it was abandoned, used for illegal purposes or was otherwise a public nuisance.
So, while that "moderately serious consequence" of getting towed is possible, it's rare. And, while this is not a "fee," it certainly turns into a fairly large one once the bottom-line-costs, tow truck driver and storage charges (per day, usually) are added together and paid to get one's car back from the impound lot. If you are writing a proposal, this is a reality in certain parts of the world the proposal should consider, if it wants to convey the full situation (on Earth, in cars, with humans, on parking lots). In short, what appears to be "simply" a fee can be fairly full-throated when it comes to describing the entire semantic richness of the situation. A tag like maxstay is a good beginning. An additional tag of something like towing_penalty=yes|no is a start down this road. SteveA _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
