Tag:parking=carports

Parking fully (or almost fully) equipped with carports. In this type of parking area, each parking space is equipped with a shelter providing minimal protection from the weather (generally a roof and possibly a single wall).

If the shelters or the shelter complex include a roof and four walls, use parking=garage_boxes instead, or even building=garage or building=garages.

How to map

Draw an describing the area occupied by the parking and add parking=carports to it.

You may alternatively use a simple mapped with amenity=parking+parking=carports, or amenity=parking_entrance+parking=carports.

Parking or building

There can be uncertainty whether to map a row of individual carports as a building=carport or as amenity=parking + parking=carports.

These two approaches describe different aspects:

• the first one (building=*) maps a physical structure without necessarily implying its use. Areas mapped this way will usually not be recognised as parking facilities by parking-related applications. This approach allows all attributes relevant to a physical building (construction_date=*, height=*, building:architecture=*, etc.).
• the second one (parking=*) maps an explicit parking use without describing the physical structure. This approach allows all attributes relevant to parking (fee=*, capacity=*, etc.).

Both representations may coexist.

Partially equipped carport parking areas

An alternative approach is to map the entire parking area with the usual attributes (amenity=parking + parking=surface or parking=street_side) and add building=carport to the relevant locations within this area (you may also find simple building=roof).

Commonly used combination tags

As for all parking areas:

• name=*
• operator=*
• access=*
• fee=*
• supervised=*
• capacity=*
• wheelchair=*