On 23 Oct 2009, at 18:02, Christopher Covington wrote: >> From the wiki, > > "Parking spaces along streets are currently not tagged. Only parking > lots of reasonable size are mapped, not every place where a car > could be > parked." > > Is there any solution to this? At, for example, the student apartment > complexes in Blacksburg, VA, there are very few parking spaces where > non-residents can park. Some of these are on the street. It would be > very useful to map these spaces. Any way to do it that would be better > than drawing thin strips? > > Also, any tips on adding variable availability public parking > information, i.e. reserved for faculty staff M-F 9-5, public otherwise > or metered M-F 9-5, free otherwise?
I see amenity=parking being only for public car parks, typically for supermarkets, or multi storey car parks in city centres. On street parking has been marked on the map for at least the past two years. Take for example George Street in Edinburgh: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=55.95277&lon=-3.20131&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF Here is a great photo showing the on street parking http://www.flickr.com/photos/34887...@n02/3939373071 Shaun _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
