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 Feature: Animals
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The animal=* tag is used for many features related to animals and pets.
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Pets and animals are very important in our society and there are a lot of facilities that provide for the care and well being of pets (e.g. dog, cat) and companion animals (e.g. horse). OpenStreetMap has only a limited vocabulary for mapping such facilities and this page aims to represent the current tag-value content and provide a summary of proposals. The list should be considered incomplete and representative.
Animal-focused tag-value pairs
Used to map facilities related to the care of ![[W]](/w/images/2/24/Wikipedia-16px.png){kind=small}
pets.
| Key | Value | Element | Definition & comments | Status | Animals | Rendering | Photo |
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| amenity | veterinary |  
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A place where a veterinary surgeon (vet) practices. | Approved | All | 
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| amenity | veterinary_pharmacy |
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A shop where veterinary medications are sold. | In use | All | 
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| shop | pet |
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A pet shop or pet store is a retail business which sells different kinds of animals. Pet stores also sell pet food, supplies, and accessories. Additional tags to consider: name=*; building=yes; animal types to which the store caters, use pet=* to specify, such as pet=fish or pet=reptile.
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Established | All | 
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| amenity | animal_training |
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For mapping non-competitive training facilities for animals. To designate the animal type being trained, use animal_training=horse or animal_training=dog, for instance. Two animal-specific tags are in rare-use: amenity=dog_training (taginfo) and amenity=horse_training (taginfo). There was also a 2008 proposed feature for sport=dog_training, which would be related to competitive training. Consider also: name=*; network=* for the Association that a particular school might be connected with.
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In use | All | .jpg)
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| leisure | horse_riding |
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Equestrian facility where people practise horse riding. | Established | Horses | 
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| leisure | dog_park |
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Designated area, with or without a fenced boundary, where dog-owners are permitted to exercise their pets unrestrained. | Approved | Dogs | 
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| vending | excrement_bags |
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Point of sale for dog excrement bags. Should be combined with amenity=vending_machine. Additional tags to consider: payment:*=*; name=*; operator=*
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Approved | Dogs | 
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| highway | bridleway | 
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A way intended for use by equestrians. | Established | Horses | 
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| route | horse | 
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A route-type relation intended for use by equestrians. | Established | Horses | 
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| route | transhumance |
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A route for long distance livestock trails. | In use | Livestock | 
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| horse | * |
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Primarily used to indicate access restrictions / permissions for horses with most common values being either 'yes' or 'no'. Most commonly associated with highway=*.
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Established | Horses | 
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| dog | * |
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Primarily used to indicate access restrictions / permissions for dogs with most common values being either 'yes' or 'no'. Most commonly associated with highway=*; surprising that there are no instances associated with natural=beach at time of writing.
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Established | Dogs | 
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| sport | equestrian |
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An equestrian sport is a sport that is practised with the horse as a partner, there are show jumping, dressage, eventing, endurance riding, driving, vaulting, steeplechasing, horse racing, reining, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, rodeo and more; horse racing has a separate tag, see below. | Established | Horses | 
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| sport | horse_racing |
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Horse racing is an equestrian sport and major international industry, watched in almost every nation of the world. There are three types: "flat" racing; steeplechasing, i.e. racing over jumps; and harness racing, where horses trot or pace while pulling a driver in a small, light cart known as a sulky. Passage from Wikipedia:Portal:Horse racing/Intro, version 421097495, 28 Mar 2011. | Established | Horses | 
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| barrier | horse_stile |
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A horse stile allows pedestrians and horses to cross a gap through a fence, but prevents or makes it very difficult for motorcycles, riderless horses and other live stock to cross. | Established | Horses | 
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| sport | dog_racing |
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Most dog racing is in the form of greyhound racing. | Established | Dogs | 
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| club | dog |
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(see club=equestrian for description) | In use | Dogs | ||
| club | equestrian |
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As with other club tags, use this to map the regular meeting place for the club. If the club is a sport-related club, then include the appropriate sport tag (e.g. sport=equestrian). Additional tags to consider: name=*, network=* (if the club is part of an association).
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Proposed | Horses | 
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| natural | beach |
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To tag a beach legally accessible to owned animals (usually dogs), use it together with tags like dog=yes, horse=yes and so on.Consider also to add name=*.
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Established | All | 
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| animal | swimming |
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Bathing area for owned animals (usually dogs). Specify animals admitted with tags like dog=yes/no, horse=yes/no and so on.In contrast to a beach for dogs this tag is thought for bathing areas at a lake or river that are not comfortable for humans and are more appealing to dogs. Consider also to add name=*.
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| animal | wellness |
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Animal wellness centre (e.g. dog groomer). Primarily dogs are getting coiffures, but there might be also services like clipping claws/cutting nails or other beautification services, so we chose the term "wellness". Specify animals admitted with tags like dog=yes/no, cat=yes/no and so on.Consider also to add name=*.
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In use | All | ||
| amenity | animal_breeding |
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Animal breeding facility, see  stud farm. Additional tags:animal_breeding=<species>;<species>;...name=*operator=* |
Approved | All | .jpg)
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| amenity | animal_shelter |
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Animal home/shelter: it is a large structure with its own staff that takes care of animals. See Animal shelter for details. It differs from amenity=shelter + shelter_type=field_shelter that instead is a very simple building, usually only a canopy. Additional tags:animal_shelter=<species>;<species>;...animal_shelter:adoption=yes/no/<species>;<species>;...animal_shelter:release=yes/no/<species>;<species>;...name=*operator=*
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Approved | All | 
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| amenity | animal_boarding |
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Animal boarding facility. See Animal boarding for details. Additional tags:animal_boarding=<species>;<species>;...name=*operator=* |
Approved | All | 
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| amenity | feeding_place |
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A place where animals are fed like a manger or an automated feeding station. | Established | All | 
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| amenity | game_feeding |
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A place where food is provided for wild-living animals. See amenity=game_feeding for details.
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Established | All | 
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| amenity | watering_place |
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A place where animals can drink water, like the analogous tag amenity=drinking_water descibes places for human drinking.
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Approved | All | 
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| animal | cemetery |
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Cemetery for animals. There's still a discussion how to tag all the different types of animals for interments. Specify animals admitted with tags like dog=yes/no, cat=yes/no, horse=yes/no, hamster=yes/no, reptile=yes/no and so on.Consider also to add name=* and operator=*.
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| animal | crematorium |
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Use amenity=crematorium crematorium=pet instead
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| hazard | animal_crossing |
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A place where animals are known to appear unexpectedly, presenting a collision hazard to motorists. Use hazard:animal=* to specify kind of animal.
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Approved | All | 
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| hazard | horse_riders |
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An area where horse riders share a roadway with motor vehicles. | Approved | Horses | .svg)
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| amenity | shelter |
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Used with shelter_type=field_shelter indicates a field shelter for animals.A field shelter is a very simple building, usually only a canopy, located in the countryside intended to provide shelter for animals (e.g. horses). It differs from amenity=animal_shelter that instead is a large structure with its own staff that takes care of animals.Specify animals admitted with tags like horse=yes/no, sheep=yes/no, pig=yes/no and so on.In case of bad weather it could be used also by humans, if it is accessible. Consider to add the tag access=* to specify its legal accessibility, especially access=private if people are not allowed to use it.
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Proposed | All | 
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| attraction | animal |
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A place where animals are kept in captivity (e.g. a cage or in an aquarium). Found in zoos or animal parks. Using name=*, the name of the animal attraction, or species of the kept animal, or the name=* of the individual animal can be specified, with species=* for the scientific name of the species.
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Established | All | 
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| zoo | petting_zoo |
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Small zoo or garden for kids to touch and play with animals. Create an area inside tourism=zoo and tag it zoo=petting_zoo.
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Approved | All | 
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