[Tagging] FW: Parking for businesses..

[Anthony]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 20 May 2010 06:28, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> > One problem I have with the concept of "access=destination", even beyond
> the
> > fact that it says "right of access", is that parking lots quite often
> aren't
> > connected to the places they serve.  Something like access=customer is
> > therefore *more general*.  The parking lot might be across the street
> from
> > the destination.  Is "access=destination" accurate then?
>
> I did make a comment about access=customer/access=destination the
> other day, in both cases you would nearly need a relation to link the
> car park to the shop that has claim to 1 or more parking spaces.
>
> As for your example above, the car park is the destination by car for
> going to certain shops, after that you need to walk, if you are
> walking or any other form of transport you most likely don't need to
> care about the car park.
>

The car park is the destination by car for going anywhere, if what you are
doing is parking there.

Access=destination would be for a public parking lot with a sign that says
"no through traffic".
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