Tag:amenity=school

+/- amenity=school Description Institution designed for learning under the supervision of teachers. Used on these elements Useful combination name=* operator=* Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list) Status Approved

Contents 1 Description 2 How to map 2.1 Further detail 3 Other useful tags 4 Rendering 5 See also

Description

Used to identify a place where pupils, normally between the ages of about 5 and 18 are taught under the supervision of teachers. This includes primary and secondary schools. See amenity=kindergarten, amenity=college, amenity=university for other educational establishments.

How to map

Use a node in the middle of the site, or alternatively mark the boundary of the school using an area . This area should envelop the full grounds of the school including all the buildings, sports facilities and grounds. For schools with multiple sites the multipolygon relation can be used. Tag the element with amenity=school and name=* for the name of school.

Further detail

Entrances across the boundary can be tagged with school=entrance and if appropriate barrier=gate. This node would also be part of a footway or service road from the main road network so that it is possible to route to the entrance of the school.

School buildings can be tagged with building=school. Building entrances can be mapped with a node on the building outline, with the tag building=entrance.

Individual sports pitches can be tagged with amenity=pitch and where an individual sport can be identified it can be tagged with sport=* and the surface (grass, asphalt etc) with surface=*. Areas of grass can tagged with landuse=grass.

Other useful tags

• name=* - Name of the school
• operator=* - Name of operator.
• addr=* - Address details
• See Category:Education for other education related articles.

For some other proposed tags see talk page.

Rendering

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See also

• amenity=kindergarten - pre-primary educational establishment
• amenity=college - post-secondary or tertiary educational establishment
• amenity=university - post-secondary or tertiary educational establishment
• Proposed features/Pre-School (early childhood education)

Related terms: institution. college. faculty. institute. class. academy. school. creed.