Talk:Key:parking

Surface + underground

What's the proper way to tag in the situation where you have a surface parking lot that also has 1 or more levels of underground parking beneath it? That means levels 0, -1,... Rostaman (talk) 23:50, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

No parking

I have encountered a No Parking sign. Please mention how to tag it on the web page. Jidanni (talk) 03:53, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

See Street parking. Something B (talk) 08:05, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Single level of parking in multi-story building?

It's not uncommon for me to see a multi-level building where the ground level (or part of it) is parking and the upper level(s) are retail or commercial. I've labeled some entrances as underground, though that's not really correct in these cases, and others as multi-storey, but since only one level of the building is parking, that doesn't seem right either. --KelsonV (talk) 21:23, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

I know this issue very well. I think this is a missing category for mapping OSM parking features. For a local parking analysis I made with OSM data, I tagged them parking=level. Dunno, if there is a better term. (Other possibility: parking=multi-storey + parking:levels=1, but I think thats kind of a troll tag.) --Supaplex030 (talk) 21:52, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Since there are at least three of us in need of such a value, I was bold and added "single-storey" to the list of values. Yelisey90 (talk) 14:38, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

You should propose it, not document it with 1 instance only. Please search for recent discussions first. Your definition is overlapping with parking=undercroft proposed, and narrower than that parking=single-storey which allows non-ground-floor. https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/undercroft-parking-and-parking-entrances/122724/
—— Kovposch (talk) 10:42, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Wow, thanks for pointing to that discussion! It's a pity nobody provided a link to that discussion from this page... Yelisey90 (talk) 16:15, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

Parking spaces in front of buildings, which are directly accessed from the street

How to tag the typical single row of parking spaces e.g. in front of small shops in urban areas (e.g. here)? There are no driveways or parking aisles, but the parking spaces are directly accessed from the street via the sidewalk. I tend to parking=street_side, because this correctly represents the direct access from the street (and correctly subtracts from parking tagged on the street line). However parking=street_side documents the requirement that the area is directly adjacent to the carriageway. parking=surface doesn't match either, because it requires "entrance and/or exit ways". Thoughts? --Zschoche (talk) 10:33, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

street_side is without doubt the good solution (acces from the carriageway thru the sidewalk) --Oldnab (talk) 10:50, 5 March 2026 (UTC)