Matias D'Ambrosio schrieb: > I would like to mark certain streets as having metered parking, but I found > no reference to it in the wiki, maybe we could decide on something? > At least according to the system used in my city (Bahia Blanca, Argentina), > and I think the country, this tag would apply to ways. Also, it has a time > restriction (in my city the same applies to all metered parking streets, they > are metered 7-20 or 8-20, I can't recall exactly). > metered_parking=<boolean> or maybe with two hours separated by a dash as in > 7-20 (I have no idea if this is allowed)?
Your wish touches several unresolved topics of OSM tagging. a) Not all parking space is created symmetrical. It is more likely that parking regulations depend on what side of the street you are. Unfortunately we have not decided on how to tag "things connected to a way, which are on one side, and that matters". Among these things are cycleways, pavements, lanes per driving direction, etc. b) Tagging of time-dependant features. Your example is easy, but it simply is not enough to have a tag for "time_start" and "time_end", as there might be the weekday influencing the times. c) Hierarchical tagging. If you tag what time the parking meter has to be used, those time tags are independent from every other tag. How can it be made clear that those tags are for the parking meter tag, not for the maxspeed tag? Does it make sense to invent "parking_meter_start_time" to distinguish it from "maxspeed_start_time"? If you can come up with a tagging scheme (need not be great, just sufficient for what you need to tag), just go ahead and do it. Expect to change your tagging some time later after there has built a consensus on the above questions. Your tagging until then might help finding a better solution. Sven _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
