Contents 1 taxi or taxi_point? 1.1 'on' and 'off' instead of 'presence' 1.2 call box 1.3 Taxi shops? 1.4 Use on ways 2 Motorcycles?

taxi or taxi_point?

The title and ValueDescription template of this article say "amenity=taxi_point", but other documentation (examples in this article and the Map Features article) say "amenity=taxi". What is the right tag value? --Ehabkost, some time on 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Guess it was my fault when i moved the page from the proposal page to the Tag:.... page. According to tagwatch atleast in Europe there are 386 amenity=taxi and 3 amenity=taxi_point

--Etric Celine 20:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I have just renamed the article and all articles that pointed to it. --Ehabkost 21:01, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

'on' and 'off' instead of 'presence'

We have a fine working system for opening hours, why don't we use it here for the presence of the taxis instead of "presence" ?! --Lulu-Ann 15:55, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

That was my thought, too. Apart from opening_hours=*, there's also Key:access#Access_time_restrictions. I think that we can use the same pattern as opening_hours, but presence (meaning usual presence, according to experience) is something else than opening hours or access time restrictions (meaning that there must not be any taxi at other times). -- MapFlea 15:42, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

call box

amenity=taxi in my opinion is a stopping place for taxis. To distinguish those places with a call box I would tag it with call_box=yes or so. In Berlin it is usual that a stopping place for taxis is not for just one operator but for all. The call box now is for one operator and not for all. Any ideas? -- Serpens 22:37, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Taxi shops?

In London we have lots of crappy little shops on highstreets (the more scruffy cheap highstreets), where you can go and ask for a taxi (I guess... I've never done it that way myself) I think they also function as the office for the taxi service, with people on the phone/radio with maps telling drivers where to go. What is the tag for taxi shop? Maybe shop=taxi. -- Harry Wood 11:17, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree, we need something to distinguish taxi ranks from taxi offices. There are ALLOT of these offices, and identifying them could be useful in the future when people start searching OSM information points (e.g., find the nearest taxi office and then get it's phone number).--http://chris-researchblog.blogspot.com/ 15:09, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Or could be best to put amenity=taxi. After all... you can get a taxi from there. And then office=yes or something.

Here's a photo (right) Note: In London we also call them "mini cabs", and tend to use "taxi" to mean the official black taxis, we could have a tag for that distinction too, but not sure if it applies in the same way elsewhere

-- Harry Wood 23:32, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

London mini-cabs is only a problem for the booking offices - only official black taxis wait in taxi ranks.

I like the amenity=taxi together with taxi=office (normally with building=yes, I guess). There's lots of these outside London too, often near railway stations. --H2g2bob 22:40, 20 April 2012 (BST)

Use on ways

This could be used on ways, too! --Lulu-Ann 08:31, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Motorcycles?

Here in Brazil, specially in near the slums, there are lots of so called "Moto Táxi", literally motorcycle-taxi. How would you tag those? I'm using amenity=taxi + vehicle=motorcycle. Better suggestions? --Nighto 17:49, 30 June 2009 (UTC)