towing_penalty=no means your car is towed away for free? In Nederland, towing always comes with a penalty, even if you don't want your car back.
Maybe a tag for consequences should be introduced. I suggest or_else=cargone. Best, Peter Elderson > Op 21 okt. 2020 om 10:32 heeft stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
