Berlin Street Parking

In this project, street parking for cars is mapped in the city of Berlin. The project is coordinated by FixMyCity. The city of Berlin has collected parking geodata (German), which we use for mapping.

Open data: https://viz.berlin.de/verkehr-in-berlin/parken/parkraumkartierung/

Rationale

You can learn more about the project and rationale at the German wiki Page: Berlin/eUVM-Parkraumdatenübernahme

TL;DR: The city of Berlin wants to use the data for official purposes, always using the latest data. We are mapping on behalf of the city.

Contact

First, please contact the individual mapper or use the changeset discussion. If no conciliation was successful, please contact one of the coordinator at FixMyCity:

• tordans (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) or
• Supaplex030 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.).

Community Consultation

We've searched mapping attendees in the German forum: Leute gesucht für bezahltes Parkraum-Mapping (JOSM, Remote)

We contacted the community using the following communication channels:

• We've announced our intentions at Berlin/Stammtisch in late 2024
• In May 2025 we've re-announced the project at Berlin/Stammtisch
• Further announcements took place via the Local Matrix Channel and via the Local Mailinglist

Hashtag

The editors are asked to use the hashtag #eUVM_Parkraumdaten on all changesets.

Tagging

We follow the Street parking tagging schema and add other features that are relevant for processing the parking data like crossings.

Tools and Data Sources

Open Data Sources

We use the official parking geodata from the Berlin city administration which was made public in 2024. You can find the licensing permission for OpenStreetMap at Berlin/eUVM-Lizenzfreigabe.

Private Data Sources

We use the official street level image source from the Berlin city administration. The images are not accessible by third-party. However, we have the permission to use the image data for derivation of OpenStreetMap data, see the permit Berlin/Straßenbefahrungsbilder-Freigabe.

Tools

We use mostly JOSM for editing.

The data is processed by different processing pipelines. More at https://parkraum.osm-verkehrswende.org/

Participants

Project coordinators

• tordans (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) project coordinator
• Supaplex030 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) project coordinator
• FMC-Henri (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) mapper coordinator

Editors

Every OSM editor has it's their person-specific account. They do not use their private account, but a company related account.

• fmc_1 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
• fmc_2 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
• fmc_3 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
• fmc_4 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
• fmc_5 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)

Every user description has a short description about the project and contact possibilities.

Measuring our Success and Performance

The project's goal is to transform the public dataset into OSM data to be able to continuously update it as part of ongoing OSM updates. The resulting dataset should have the same quality level that the existing external data has.

We track our progress with a task manager.

Training/Instructions

The hired persons are skilled in OSM and active to highly active OpenStreetMap editors.

Beyond that, FixMyCity provides training and support.

Timeframe

The project started in May 2025 and is planned to be finished at the end of 2025.