Key:stars

+/- stars Description Used to classify a hotel or restaurant. Group Properties Element help Useful combination tourism=hotel amenity=restaurant Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list)

The stars tag is used to describe the classification of a hotel or restaurant.

Hotels

There is no worldwide standard on the classification of hotels. The European Hotelstars Union has defined criteria which are used in several Central European countries. Other countries have their own standards (defined e.g. by the government or by a hotel association), but most of these standards use a range of 1 to 5 stars. Some hotels around the world claim to have 6 or even 7 stars.

European Hotelstars Union levels:

☆	Tourist
☆S	Superior Tourist
☆☆	Standard
☆☆S	Superior Standard
☆☆☆	Comfort
☆☆☆S	Superior Comfort
☆☆☆☆	First Class
☆☆☆☆S	Superior First Class
☆☆☆☆☆	Luxury
☆☆☆☆☆S	Superior Luxury

Examples for this tag:

stars=1
stars=5S
stars=6

Note: using numbers is a de-facto standard in OpenStreetMap. However, there has not been a discussion yet on how to tag the intermediate levels (e.g. "☆☆☆☆☆ Superior", "☆☆☆ Plus").

Restaurants

The Michelin Guide is a restaurant guide that is available for several regions around the world. Very good restaurants receive 1 to 3 Michelin stars (in fact, the stars are awarded to the chefs of the restaurant). These restaurants can be tagged with the stars tag. Please use the most current edition of the Michelin Guie as a reference. Please don't tag restaurants with stars=0, as this value is implied.

Other classifications

There are other classifications that do not use star symbols, such as the diamond rating published by the AAA. There has not yet been a discussion on how to represent these systems in OpenStreetMap.

Rendering

Currently, neither Mapnik nor Osmarender display stars in any way. Renderers could display small yellow stars behind the hotel or restaurant name at high zoom levels.