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add preset for highway=service mapped as areas #463
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this is actually quite good name and have no better ideas
that is definitely serious problem, and I have seen this tag misused in this way, so often that it makes me dubious about adding support for |
“Maneuvering area” could be misinterpreted as runways and taxiways. The icon may not imply anything aeronautical, but that’s no help to someone who enters To come up with a less ambiguous term, it would be helpful to get a more specific example of what’s considered correct usage of this tagging combination. All the examples I can think of would arguably be better represented as |
maneuvering areas in industrial sites qualify... Maneuvering Road Area? |
What the heck is a maneuvering area? |
Yeah, the problem is that you can’t just stick arbitrary words together in any dialect of English and expect them to be intuitive, even if they would make logical sense, because the language is so rife with unpredictable compound words.
“Yard” or “service yard” can ambiguously refer to either the whole industrial site (think railyard) or just the often paved area often connected to loading docks. I don’t think there’s anything more natural than that or “lot”. If we really want a preset for this, it would end up being called something unwieldy like “Vehicle Free-for-All at Industrial Site” or something that makes assumptions like “Paved Lot”. But I still don’t see a compelling case for a preset independent of the existing Road Area preset. |
Sorry, I just got this one as the result from a translation service. 😅 Perhaps it was giving a result which should be only used in an airport context. Let's try to find a better name then.
👍 As far as I understood one typical use case for this is for paved areas in industrial areas where trucks halt to load/unload goods (examples: 1, 2). Another example would be for the paved area in front of fire stations, bus depots, etc. (3). Typically, in such situations there exists no clear linear linear way/path that the vehicles take. Mapping such areas as The wiki also says the following:
FWIW, I initially liked that the term maneuvering in Maneuvering Area kind of inherently conveys the omnidirectional driving on such paved areas.
We could also choose to not support this tag, sure. But if we don't, we must not forget to fix the issue that iD currently shows a false validation warning (Service Road should be a line, not an area) which would be automatically fixed by introducing this preset.
I wouldn't mind this one. One possibility would be to use this name, but make the preset non-searchable to reduce the issue that users might apply it in potentially wrong situations? |
Something like "paved service area" would probably get the idea across (assuming it's paved), but I think fundamentally we don't really have a word for this. |
I think that it is a good idea |
as usage is pretty niche and showing the preset in search results could potentially mislead mappers to misuse the tag
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“Staging lot” came up in OSMUS Slack as a possible term for at least some of these facilities. (Or for |
Adds a preset for
highway=service
objects mapped as areas. Closes #431.Since the only concrete use case listed on the wiki is for widenings […] in an industrial estate I used the name Maneuvering Area for this. But maybe it is too specific? My concern with Service Road Area is that it could mislead many mappers to use this tag when
area:highway
should actually be used (and the fact that it is too similar to the name of the Road Area preset for these map features).