On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:13:33AM +0100, Ben Konrath wrote:
There's another problem that needs to be sorted out when using the driving directions to the POIs. When I'm driving to the big box store in the suburbs, I don't actually want directions to the building, but rather directions to the parking lot (car park in the UK terms) of the building. To solve this I think a new relation type will be needed where you can relate a parking lot to a building. And then of course we'll need to support this in mkgmap.
You could solve this by adding operator= or name= to the amenity=parking. Then, you would just navigate to the parking lot that is called 'big box store'. For foot and bicycle navigation, I'd define a POI for the main door building=entrance. This won't work perfectly when you are navigating to a store inside a shopping mall or when there are multiple entrances, but it is good enough. Marko