[mkgmap-dev] problem with --generate-sea near Toronto, Canada

Tue Feb 1 13:15:45 GMT 2011

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