Parking

Feature: Parking

Description

Discussing car parks and places to park bicycles and other vehicles.

Group

Parking

Tags

Parking is a place where people can park their vehicle.

See parking=* for the parking key that is used to specify the type of parking facility.

How to map

Minimal tagging is just to map a node with amenity=parking or another parking tag like amenity=bicycle_parking, depending on the type of parking.

If possible, parking should be mapped with an area and tagged with additional properties and detail. Street parking, particularly in the form of a parking lane or highway shoulder, can instead be mapped via tags on the road way (highway=*) itself using parking:*=*.

Additional tags

The parking=* key can be used together with amenity=parking to specify the type of parking facility. Most used values are:

• parking=surface
• parking=underground
• parking=multi-storey
• parking=street_side
• parking=lane

There also exist other values which are typically used in combination with street parking but also are valid for amenity=parking if unsupported by many tools (including OSM mainstays like Carto and iD). These are:

• parking=on_kerb
• parking=half_on_kerb
• parking=shoulder
• parking=layby

Use cases

Motor vehicles / Cars

• amenity=parking - The main tag covering most conventional car parks, coach parks etc. Many additional tags are listed on this page.
• amenity=parking_space - Can be used to map individual parking spaces within an area of amenity=parking or can be added to a relation of the type site=parking.
• amenity=motorcycle_parking - For parking areas specifically for motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, etc.
• parking:left=*, parking:right=* or parking:both=* - For street parking along a highway=*.

Bicycles

• amenity=bicycle_parking - For metal hoops and other types of bicycle parking facilities.

• amenity=bicycle_rental - For docking stations, or other places where you can park a rental bike.

Stroller

• amenity=stroller_parking - For metal hoops, shacks and other types of designated stroller parking facilities.

Boats

• See Harbour tags.
• amenity=boat_storage - For dry-land boat "parking".

Private/residential parking

• amenity=parking + access=private - Access tags can be applied to any parking facility as needed.

• building=garage - For single-user or single-owner private garage building.

• building=garages - For buildings which are blocks of private garages, where each garage space has a different owner.

See also

• amenity=car_sharing - For parking spots for car share vehicles (car clubs).
• tourism=caravan_site - For a place where caravans / motorhomes / recreational vehicles can stay overnight, or longer.

The Parking Map page references tools for contributing to and visualizing parking lots and parking areas.