[SOLVED] Public car park label - guidance

Map Editors Community United Kingdom
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The wiki says to label public car parks with [P]. Can I check, does that mean “P” surrounded by square parentheses (i.e. [P]) or does it mean “P”?

P on it’s own looks like parking, whereas [P] looks a bit odd, but maybe triggers some function within WAZE?

Thanks

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The guidelines recommend using [P] with the brackets. After some testing, UK editors felt that this actually looks quite good on the client. Waze doesn’t do anything special with it though.

Also note that only public car parks should be labelled like this, not customer car parks for shops, etc.

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Ok, thanks for clarifying. Square brackets it is.

David

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When I mark a thread as SOLVED, should I be using square brackets or . . . :lol:

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Everyone’s a comedian… lol.

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In America the client puts a blue P logo on the map if [P] is used. Unfortunately Waze hasn’t implemented this in he UK yet.

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I like to think customer car parks are no different to council owned ones so they should be added. Large out of town retail parks, shopping centres etc, all aids with navigation.

Plus all free private customer car parks have unlimited parking, no need to worry now they can’t tow or clamp. Useful if you need to find a car park.

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But they can stick a big ugly sticker on your window that takes industrial chemicals to get off.

Only public car parks should be labelled this way.

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New client does the P symbol.

Now, is this to do with the landmark being made a parking lot, or the [P]?

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Not sure it’s either, think it’s more a POI from one of the 3rd party sources.

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I also think it’s from a third party source, rather than any properties on the map.