<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I enjoy mapping nature reserves, large parks and trail systems. These typically share a number of features:</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">They're physically adjacent to several roads, but they're only accessible from one or two.<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">They typically have one or more official parking areas, with information kiosks and trailheads.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">They almost never have official street numbers.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">They're often surrounded by poorly-surveyed, poorly-marked roads which make manual navigation hazardous.</li></ul><div>For several illustrated examples, please see the wiki: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ekidd/Routing_to_public_lands_with_designated_parking_lots" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ekidd/Routing_to_public_lands_with_designated_parking_lots</a></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In an ideal world, there would be some way to clearly indicate "This is an official parking lot for accessing this area/POI/business/etc."</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Possibilities include:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">amenity=parking with destination=*. This seems straightforward, but it's rarely used.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">A relation linking the destination with its official parking lot(s). More complicated, but it might handle other odd cases.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Some way to associate a "preferred routing point" with an area (a bit hacky, frankly).</li></ul><div>Does anybody have any suggestions? Are there existing conventions? Would any OSM-based routing software be interested in delivering people to the correct parking lot? Are there other related use cases?</div><div><br></div><div>-Eric</div></div></div>