Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/20 Tyler Gunn : > Lol, now just think if we micro-mapped each tree in the parking lot you > could get your GPS to determine the spot that is likely to be in shade for > a large part of the day, keeping your car nice and cool! :)  Ok, too far > perhaps. height and diameter are still missing

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-20 Thread Anthony
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:50 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 20 May 2010 22:46, Tyler Gunn wrote: > > Lol, now just think if we micro-mapped each tree in the parking lot you > > could get your GPS to determine the spot that is likely to be in shade > for > > a large part of the day, keeping your car n

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 May 2010 22:46, Tyler Gunn wrote: > Lol, now just think if we micro-mapped each tree in the parking lot you > could get your GPS to determine the spot that is likely to be in shade for > a large part of the day, keeping your car nice and cool! :) Ok, too far > perhaps. Some people do map i

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-20 Thread Tyler Gunn
> Rather than permitted=*, why not use parking_use=*? That would then be > consistent with your proposed relation. Though "permitted" is more > general and might be able to be generalised to other features... Or perhaps something like "permitted_parkers"; I don't think there's anything wrong with

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-20 Thread Tyler Gunn
> Agreed, although the situations in which it's not so clear are the ones > where OSM could really get an advantage over the competition. So many > times > I'm directed by Google Maps to a location quite a distance away from the > parking lot I'm trying to get to. It's especially annoying when t

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-19 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Tyler Gunn wrote: > > > Access=private works fine, then (along with access=public > > andaccess=permissive).  Preferably with an additional tag (or relation) > > withsome indication of who is allowed to park there. > > Maybe access=customer isn't needed after all.

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-19 Thread Anthony
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Tyler Gunn wrote: > I think in most circumstances it is probably pretty clear which business a > parking lot is intended for though. > Agreed, although the situations in which it's not so clear are the ones where OSM could really get an advantage over the competi

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-19 Thread Tyler Gunn
> Access=private works fine, then (along with access=public > andaccess=permissive).  Preferably with an additional tag (or relation) > withsome indication of who is allowed to park there. > Maybe access=customer isn't needed after all. How about something like: access=private permitted=patron/pe

Re: [Tagging] FW: FW: Parking for businesses..

2010-05-19 Thread Seventy 7
Yes, exactly. I couldn't have put it better myself!! From: tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org[mailto:tagging-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Sent: 19 May 2010 21:36 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools Subject: Re: [Tagging] FW: Parking for businesses..   On Wed, May