[OSM-newbies] Parking lot around building.

[Richard Welty]

On 11/29/10 8:52 PM, James Ewen wrote:
>
> Watch out... I put a parking lot around a building then had people
> squawking because "parking lots are only places where the public can
> park, or you can pay to park".
>
> I drew an outline around a church where the parking stalls were
> located, and that caused a little kerfuffle. All those parking stalls
> around the church where parishioners can park aren't parking stalls to
> some. I'm not sure what they are, but there were a few people getting
> their feathers ruffled about it.
you have access tags for that. i like

access=destination

because it accurately sums up "you can park here if you have
business here", whether that's shopping, going to church,
going to police court, whatever.

richard