Talk:Tag:parking=layby

Purpose of this tag?

I don't see the purpose of this tag. Yes, it is described on the wiki how to use it. But why should it be used? Why is it needed? The parking place is either parking=street_side or parking=surface and the whole area including the service road and picnic tables is a highway=rest_area. Why is omitting the rest_area and just using parking=layby instead useful? Aceman444 (talk) 10:15, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

While physically often similar to parking=street_side, lay-bys appear to have different semantics. E.g., they are 'more interesting' to motorists than normal street-side parking bays, and navigation apps and renderers can highlight them accordingly. As to why mappers don't use highway=rest_area instead: parking=layby seems to feel like just a step below a proper rest-area to some, and it is less work to tag a minimal layby with just parking=layby when its outline isn't exactly clear. That's how I see this tag anyway. You would have to ask other mappers who use this tag for their opinion though. --JeroenHoek (talk) 10:27, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Does this imply parking=surface?

Is this a subtype of parking=surface or is it orthogonal? —-Dieterdreist (talk) 22:20, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Neither. It is a unique type sometimes similar in physical appearance to street_side (for the simpler types) and similar in importance to a large surface. (If by orthogonal you mean unrelated, it is better to use the latter.) --JeroenHoek (talk) 09:04, 5 March 2024 (UTC)