In context of overlay "Things" – Parking Ticket Vending Machine – https://osm.org/node/12241457628 via StreetComplete_ee 59.1:

"Parking meter" defaults to the vending machine type on SCEE, but it looks like the wiki says that this sort of feature is allowed for things that don't dispense tickets but allot time. So just noting here for why I'm using this feature type. 

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:vending%3Dparking_tickets