Talk:Key:permit

What are students/employees/residents permits?

The values employees, residents and students are listed on the page as "common values", but without any information about what they are meant for. Tagging one of these values with access=permit actually seems like a tagging mistake to me, because e.g. an "employees permit" is not something, that I can usually apply for. For closed groups, the correct access restriction is private.

Is anyone keen on explaining/keeping these values? Zschoche (talk) 10:32, 17 September 2026 (UTC)

Similar to private (Key:private), it tells what type of permit is required in an area. In case it isn't clear to others, I have added the missing descriptions for each value.

I will use parking since that is where I have seen this useful. There are different types of permitted parking. permit=* helps distinguish that. I often come across name=* for unnamed parking. The name may be packed with things that should be tags. For example name="Faculty & Staff Red Permit Parking (short term)" could become tagged with access=permit, permit=employees colour=red, or maxstay=30 minutes.

Since there is often different types of permitting in close proximity, it is helpful to tag them in that way. Hypsometric (talk) 12:25, 17 September 2026 (UTC)

I see. So you e.g. replaced name=Staff & Blue Badge Holder Parking with permit=employees and colour=blue on this car park. I agree with the approach to replace incorrect uses of the name=* key by other tags. But then, these tags should follow the agreed conventions. This is not the case for the linked car park:

1. The access tag of the car park is wrong. "Staff Parking" means that it is restricted to a closed group, so it should be access=private and not access=permit. Therefore, the additional information on who exactly access is restricted to needs to be captured as private=employees rather than permit=employees.
2. I'm not from the UK, but a quick web search told me, that "blue badges" are handed out to people with walking disabilities. So "Blue Badge Holder Parking" means disabled=yes.

I appreciate your efforts to clean up incorrect uses of the name tag, but please make sure to not introduce new tagging errors. Zschoche (talk) 00:06, 23 September 2026 (UTC)