It sounds like the parking is an amenity of the the trailhead. maybe tagging the trailhead as a point/area is a good thing. (amenity=trailhead or similar tag that could be for a point or area. This si especially useful for larger facilities where the whole reason for being is that the the trail is starting there (like most of whitney portal, or the major parking stations on Mt Fuji) there is no reason to be there other than to be at the trailhead.
or finding the best place to access the trail is elusive (as mentioned in the post), designating the "trail starting point" or similar is a good idea. So then the parking is just inside the area for the trialhead. > 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." Put it inside the trailhead area. Done. There are a lot of trailheads with unofficial parking (a turnout by the side of the road, etc), and that would handle them too, official or not. J On Oct 20, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> wrote: > Sounds like mapping the trailhead and associated entities as a "site" would > be useful. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:site > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Eric Kidd <emk.li...@randomhacks.net> wrote: > I enjoy mapping nature reserves, large parks and trail systems. These > typically share a number of features: > They're physically adjacent to several roads, but they're only accessible > from one or two. > They typically have one or more official parking areas, with information > kiosks and trailheads. > They almost never have official street numbers. > They're often surrounded by poorly-surveyed, poorly-marked roads which make > manual navigation hazardous. > For several illustrated examples, please see the wiki: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Ekidd/Routing_to_public_lands_with_designated_parking_lots > > 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." > > Possibilities include: > amenity=parking with destination=*. This seems straightforward, but it's > rarely used. > A relation linking the destination with its official parking lot(s). More > complicated, but it might handle other odd cases. > Some way to associate a "preferred routing point" with an area (a bit hacky, > frankly). > 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? > > -Eric > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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