I was out walking around and “popping” quests on StreetComplete. I was wondering what the consensus is on the question “Who is allowed to park here?” In this case, it’s an ungated parking lot next to a commercial/industrial warehouse with many companies occupying the same space. A few of the parking spots had a sign indicating “reserved for XYZ customers”, but most did not. This is not a city-owned parking lot. What’s the right answer?

  • Mannivu@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    I’d choose “Can’t say…”, leave a note explaining the situation and let someone split the parking or do it myself on PC (or in Vespucci).

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      1 year ago

      I think some of the spots are also free for anyone? If all three are true, each with a subset of the spots, my gut reaction is to select ‘open to anyone’

      • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Unless you know for sure I’d default to the safe option (only people with permission).

        Just cause it really suck to follow osm then get your towed/ticketed or anything, and you don’t want to muck up the dataset

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          2 months ago

          If you don’t know for sure, answer “can’t say”. A tag shouldn’t be present if its proper value is unknown.

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            2 months ago

            After 11 months consideration and more experience with osm myself, I gotta agree - even defaulting ‘safe’ is mucking up the dataset in this case

  • Anonymouse@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    What do people put at a place like McDonald’s or WalMart? Typically there are no signs saying “customers only”, but it’d be strange to park there and walk somewhere. Same for a church, except I’ve lived in some places where the church parking lot was used by the people using a nearby bus stop.