Key:parking:lane:both
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Parking on and along the road.
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The keys beginning with parking:lane: and parking:condition: are used for describing parking permissions and different no parking / no halting stretches on highways.
The original proposal, its discussion page, and an example gallery contain more examples.
Basics
Describing roadside parking comes down to two different properties:
- If one is allowed to park, how is one supposed to place his or her vehicle when parking?
- Section #Vehicle orientation or no parking below
- Under what conditions one may or may not park there?
- Section #Parking conditions below.
To this end, we use two tags. A prohibition to park, or a prohibition to stop excludes any parking, so we can have the vehicle orientation and the aforementioned cases as values of one tag. If parking is allowed, we then have to use some other key to describe the conditions for parking.
Vehicle orientation or no parking
For every road, one can have either
- parking:lane:both=* : when the situation is equal on both sides of the road
or one, or both of
- parking:lane:left=* : describing the parking allowance or prohibition on the left side of the way in the way direction
- parking:lane:right=* : likewise, on the right side of the way in the way direction
Values
These keys can have the following values:
Some vehicles allowed
These values imply that at least some vehicles are allowed to park.
- parallel: they must park parallel to the road
- diagonal: they must park diagonally - aka. angle parking or echelon parking
- perpendicular: they must park at a straight angle, i.e. the front or back of the vehicle pointing straight towards the road center line.
Various prohibitions
- no_parking: no regular road user is allowed to park on the road. They may stop, though, to for example pick up/drop off a passenger, unload cargo or for other reasons as laid out in the local legislation.
- no_stopping: no regular road user is allowed to stop their vehicle, except when traffic conditions require him to do so.
- fire_lane: in countries where such exist, an extra sign indicating a lane that must be kept clear for possible fire engines, or other emergency vehicles: in a sense equal to, but stricter than a no_stopping.
Parking conditions
Often, when roadside parking is allowed, there are no conditions attached, except in many urban areas. These attributes are tagged with keys beginning with parking:condition:, i.e.
- parking:condition:both=* when the condition is equal on both sides of the road
or one or both of
Values
The condition tags are known to have the following values:
- free: parking is free of charge and parking duration is not limited, either
- disc: parking is free of charge, but the vehicle must have a properly set up parking disc
- ticket: one must pay for the parking. The maximum parking time may be limited, too.
- residents: parking is only allowed to local residents with a special parking permit for that area
The following values are also in use in some cases, but require more tags to describe the implied details:
- no_parking: a stretch of road that normally allows parking, but where parking is prohibited for some part of the day.
- no_stopping: a road that normally allows parking, or stopping, but where stopping is prohibited for some part of the day.
Part time conditions
When the condition for parking is valid for some part of the day only, you need to use one more tag, that is, any of:
- parking:condition:both:time_interval=*
- parking:condition:left:time_interval=*
- parking:condition:right:time_interval=*
The syntax for their value is as described at opening_hours.
Only some vehicles allowed
If the condition is valid only for some vehicles, use
- parking:condition:both:vehicles=motorcar or
- parking:condition:both:vehicles=goods; bus
Limited parking time
Regardless of whether it's ticket parking or disc parking, when the parking duration is limited, you can add
Residential permits
Area based residential permits often carry some sort of letter or code identifying the area wherein they are valid. To record that, use
When parking is with ticket only, except free for residents, users have so far used the combination
to mean that regardless of the condition ticket residents are free to park.
Different conditions at different times
In the simplest case you have free parking at night, and ticket parking at day on workdays, for example
- parking:condition:right=ticket
- parking:condition:right:time_interval=Mo-Fr 09:00-19:00
- parking:condition:right:default=free
Sometimes specifying one default condition is not enough. In these cases we end up with an abundance of tags, for example:
- parking:lane:right=parallel
- parking:condition:right=no_stopping (read: no stopping at morning rush hour)
- parking:condition:right:time_interval=Mo-Fr 07:00-09:00
- parking:condition:right:2=disc (read: otherwise, at daytime, short term parking only)
- parking:condition:right:2:maxstay=30 min
- parking:condition:right:2:time_interval=Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00
- parking:condition:right:default=free (read: and free parking at night)
In this example, we couldn't use plain parking:lane:right=no_stopping, as parking is allowed at some times of the day.
Parking ticket vending machines
amenity=vending_machine + vending=parking_tickets
Vehicle position
Sometimes the parking on the street is allowed at the edge of the driving lane, at other times there is a painted, dedicated strip at the edge of the road, and sometimes one must park on the high side of the kerb stone. To record this, use
Replace both with the side of the road you're describing, when applicable. Replace also parallel with diagonal or perpendicular when applicable.
Known values are:
- on_street
- half_on_kerb
- on_kerb
- lay_by
- painted_area_only
Rendering
There's a map that shows these roadside parking tags on a map:
- Parking map at toolserver.org
- Parking map at openstreetmap.de With map legend, and includes some overlaid icons for disc parking and the parking:condition:*:vehicles tag.
