Tag:amenity=taxi
 amenity = taxi
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A place where taxis wait for passengers. Often near where many people congregate. 
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Status: approved
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A taxi rank (or taxi stand, taxicab stand, etc.) is a place where taxis wait for passengers. Often found at airports, hotels, railway/bus/subway stations, large shopping centers or other places people congregate.
How to map
This tag locates the point where taxis wait, not the point where passengers wait.
Place a node 
at the location where taxis wait for passengers and add tag amenity=taxi.
Useful combination
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| capacity=* | Maximum number of taxis that can wait here (rough estimation). |
| contact:phone=* | Phone number to contact the taxi rank. |
| name=* | Name of taxi rank. |
| opening_hours=* | Hours and/or weekdays where the taxi rank is legally in operation |
| operator=* | Operator of taxi stand. |
| taxi_vehicle=* | A way to specify the vehicles used by the taxi stand, such as mototaxis with taxi_vehicle=motorcycle |
| Some mappers have used this access control tag to identify taxi stands that provide motorcycle taxis. This is confusingly inconsistent with its use for access control, and as such is disliked by other mappers. Taxi stands with this tag combination should be changed to the tag above. | |
| Some mappers have used this access control tag to identify taxi stands that do not provide car taxis. This is confusingly inconsistent with its use for access control, and as such is disliked by other mappers. |
Taxi Boats
There are isolated cases around the world where boat taxis exist, like in Venice. These are on demand vehicles that are often based on a pier and can be hired from there like a normal taxi. Not to be confused with some other self-called "Taxi Boats" where there are several different passenger hopping on and cruising trough a fixed route, where ferry tagging more suitable is.
In these cases it has been proposed in chat forums to use:
taxi_vehicle=motorboat in combination with amenity=taxi
Note that there is not yet a formal approval since there are still very few documented places with this particularity.
See also
- taxi=* - Access permission for taxi vehicles