Roy Wallace wrote: >On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Randy ><rwtnospam-new...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>>I think access=destination is natural and expresses concisely "you can >>>park here if you are visiting an associated business". >... >> >>That sounds good to me, as well. > >So... access=destination seems to have some support. My issue is that >its use doesn't really reflect the wiki definition - which, at the >moment, is only really explained in relation to highways. At the >moment, access=destination is defined as "the public has right of >access only if this is the only road to your destination." For >access=destination to be extended to parking areas, I think this would >need to be changed to something like: "the public may access/use this >entity only if it is necessary to do so in order to get to your >destination." > >Is this sufficient? > >Secondly, Peter asked "How should we tag a private corporate employee >car park ... where there are staff car parks and patient car pars and >they are different." This is a good point, and it can't be expressed >with access=destination. This is another reason why I'm still leaning >towards introducing parking=*, in which case the carpark for staff >would be parking=staff and for patients, parking=customer. > >Thoughts? Change the definition of access=destination or introduce >parking=*?
On further thought, while I'm OK with either approach, I think "amenity=parking, parking=customer" is a better way to go than bending access=destination to fit the issue. It seems a little closer to what seems to be a best practice in other areas. And, it does establish a structure for other potential parking restrictions, if they come up, such as "parking=student" "parking=staff" and "parking=visitor" at a college, Or even "parking=A" where only those with an "A" lot sticker are allowed. That may be a little too cryptic for a tag, but I think it makes the point. This would also set the system up for something like "parking:max_time=1hr". Well, now I've totally talked myself out of supporting "access=destination" in favor of "amenity=parking, parking=*". -- Randy _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
