Our method
Osmopark is written and maintained by the Osmopark team, published by OSMOVA. A car park page or an article is only useful if you can trust it at the moment you drive there, so we follow a few simple rules.
Official sources first
Car parks come from open data published by cities and public bodies, from operators' own pages and from OpenStreetMap. Rules of the road come from laws, ministries, city councils and transport authorities. Blogs, forums and other websites can point us to a question, never to an answer.
No made-up figures
A price, a capacity, a height or a speed limit is only shown when a source publishes it. When nobody publishes it, the field stays empty or says so. We never estimate, round or deduce a figure, and a maximum height is never presented as permission for a type of vehicle.
A date on everything
Every car park page and every article shows its sources and the date they were last checked. Articles are checked again at least once a year, and their update date changes when they are. Rules change: when one is about to change, the article says so with the official date.
What artificial intelligence does, and does not do
We use AI tools to help search official sources and to write in five languages. They are never the source of a fact or a figure: each fact is checked on the official page it comes from, and the figures on car parks come from the data, not from the text.
Errors are corrected at the source
Despite these rules, a price can change or a car park can close. Every page has a link to report an error. Each report is checked against the sources, and the correction is published on the site.