This is all pending while we wait for Waze to confirm that they will create a 'Customer Parking' Category.xteejx wrote:I thought it was agreed that Parking Lot or Car Park (as Waze suggested and general consensus was) that they should purely be used for *public* car parks where a driver wouldn't be penalised?
But the new direction for 'Parking Lot' or Car Park' is that it should only be used for parking where you can park you car (with/without a fee) and safely leave the area to go about your business. Most Malls/supermarkets/Retail parks/offices only allow parking for while you are on the premises.
The reason for this is that a search for parking should only return a result for parking were you can leave the premises otherwise a Wazer might be directed to a parking area that is not suitable. If the Wazer was heading to 'Sainsbury's' then they would not be searching for parking but the store itself.
Given that Places search is currently not working properly it isn't an immediate issue but it will be in the future. Expect a fix 'soon' (or earlier).
Re: New WME and Places (UK)