Key:url

+/- url Description Specifying an url related to a feature. Group Annotation Element help Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list)

URL means Uniform Resource Locator. It can stand for a variety of things while mappers mostly use it for websites.

This tag is being used for very different types of content - official websites of an amenity or its operator, third-party pages, the object's Wikipedia entry, photographs featuring the object, or even documentation on the OSM wiki.

So it is adviced to not use this tag and use a more structural tag like website=* (or its synonym contact:website=*), image=* or wikipedia=*.

Creating a robust tag

To create a tag that will stand the test of time, simplify the URL as much as possible. For example http://www.example.com/department/index.shtml?foo=fum is more likely to work in the future if coded as http://www.example.com/department/ or better yet http://www.example.com

See also

• Proposed features/External links
• Key:contact
• website=*
• wikipedia=*
• URL Parameters of the osm data search tool Nominatim
• layer URL parameter of the OpenStreetMap homepage