Key:entrance

entrance
Description
To mark the location of an entrance.
Rendering in openstreetmap-carto
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Group: Man made
Used on these elements
Useful combination
access=yes/private name=* ref=* wheelchair=yes/no/limited
Status: approved
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Wikidata
Q1137365

The entrance=* key describes the point where you can go into a building or enclosed area (such as a zoo, theme park, cemetery grounds etc). Different values are used to denote the importance or type of entrance. The entrance node should be placed on the building/area's way (i.e. its outline).

For indoor doors, see indoor and Simple Indoor Tagging.

Tagging

Key	Value	Element	Comment	Carto Rendering	Carto Rendering	Photo
entrance	yes		An entrance exists at this position to a building or enclosed area.
entrance	main		The main entrance of a building or enclosed area.
entrance	secondary		An additional entry, often used only for events or at special times
entrance	service		A backdoor to a building or enclosed area often only for employees or for delivering.
entrance	exit		It is not an entrance, it is a one-way out of a building or enclosed area. You find it at some larger shops, museums or theme parks.
entrance	emergency		An emergency exit is a one-way out of a building in case of fire. It is often combined with a fire alarm box. See also exit=emergency for these.
entrance	staircase		Door to staircase.
entrance	home		Door to a private house, home or an apartment.
entrance	garage		Door to a garage

How to place nodes tagged with "entrance".

Please use the access=* values to describe who is allowed to enter.

• access=yes The public has an official, legally-enshrined right of access.
• access=delivery Access only for delivering goods to or from a customer.
• access=private Access only with key, keycard or similar. Look here for additional subtags.
• access=no Access is not allowed. (osm-Carto Rendering )

If you don't need a key to go out from a building or restricted area, you can mark this with exit=yes. This tagging has sense, if rules for exit are different from rules for entrance.

Accessibility combinations

• Use wheelchair=yes to describe the entrance possibilities for a wheelchair user.
• You can add width=* to indicate small doors for wheelchair routing.
• You can add automatic_door=yes to indicate automatic doors for wheelchair users and to warn visually impaired / blind users.

Rendering

• MapSurfer.NET shows entrances as small dots at zoom level 18 and 19 (go to map).
• OsmAnd shows entrances in its default mappaint style.
• Or use Keep Right's "deprecated tags" for the whole world (go to map).
• OSM2World adds doors to 3D buildings based on entrance=*

Entrances and addresses

Main article: Addresses

If address is related not to whole building, but to individual staircases/entrances, tags entrance=main/staircase/home, addr:housenumber=* and addr:street=* should be added to main entrances to staircases (or to houses). Use ref=* for marking "inner" number of staircase (not to be confused with "outer" address, which some staircases have - for such addresses we should use addr:housenumber=*). addr:housenumber=* is put to one of entrances to staircase, ref=* can be marked to several entrances (also to service entrances to staircases).

Use addr:flats=* for marking all flats inside the staircase, for example, addr:flats=1-20. (This entrance leads to flats/apartments with numbers from 1 to 20 inclusive). If there are gaps in numbering, use semicolons: addr:flats=3-7;10;14;16-18.

If there is only one flat or unit behind the door addr:unit=* is more common. See addr=* for more.

See also

• Proposed features/entrance - proposal/voting page for this tag
• emergency=emergency_ward_entrance - to mark the entrance to an emergency ward
• Proposed features/entrance/door - proposal/voting page for this tag
• door=* - kind of door (automatic, hinged, ...)
• amenity=parking_entrance - An entrance to an underground or multi storey parking facility
• amenity=loading_dock - An entrance for loading heavy goods vehicles
• barrier=entrance - An opening or gap in a barrier.
• barrier=gate - A section in a wall or fence which can be opened to allow access.
• Relations of type=building which, for indoor mapping, should at least have one member with the role "entrance"
• exit=* - Marks free exit of a building/restricted area.

Possible Tagging Mistakes

• building=entrance

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• entrance=main_entrance ‒ Please consider to use the proposed tagging like entrance=main.

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• entrance=secondary_entrance ‒ Please consider to use the proposed tagging like entrance=secondary.

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• entrance=fire_exit ‒ Please consider to use the proposed tagging like entrance=emergency.

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