I was using the OSM maps for my city on my Garmin recently and when I listed the "parking" POIs I noticed a whole slew of parking showing up in there; mainly "unnamed".. It got me thinking why those are in there but then it dawned on me that in my area I've started adding in the parking lots and service roads for businesses in my area: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.790516&lon=-97.156395&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF
This brought up a few questions: 1. What should the "access" for these parking lots be? access=public would seem to be appropriate, but in some regards that's not entirely accurate. Almost all of these types of parking lots will have some kind of notice that tow-away is enforced for unauthorized parking. So the general idea is you're free to park there, ONLY if you're visiting the businesses serviced by the lot. So would access=permissive (The owner gives general permission for access.) or access=destination (The public has right of access only if this is the only road to your destination.) be more appropriate? 2. Should I bother naming these parking lots? Thanks! Tyler _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
