Key:horse

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Public-images-osm logo.svg horse
Sinnbild Reiter, StVO 1992.svg
Description
Access permission for equestrians. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: restrictions
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Documented values: 1
Useful combination
See also
Status: de facto

Use this key for mapping access permission for equestrians (people riding on horseback[1]) on highways/tracks/footpaths.

It takes several values, such as yes, no, private, designated, as part of a generalised scheme for access restrictions applying to all different transport types. See access=*. Even if horse riding is forbidden (horse=no), leading horses may nevertheless be allowed (compare horse=dismount). If horse riding is allowed, horse-drawn vehicles may nevertheless be forbidden and vice versa: on ways were horse-drawn vehicles are allowed riding on horseback may be forbidden. (see carriage=*, in the OSM access-hierarchy carriage=* is not a subcategory of horse=*, these categories do not overlap, the former is member of vehicle=* the latter is not).

This is a legal restriction, don't use it to tag the suitability. To tag the suitability for trail riding you can use horse_scale=* instead.

For a guide to mapping horse riding features see Riding

Common values

Photo

A "no horse riding" sign.
This path would be tagged with horse=no
  1. The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, uses the term "riders on horseback"