Key:entrance
 entrance
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| To mark the location of an entrance. |
| Group: Man made |
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| Wikidata |
| Q1137365 |
Status: approved
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The entrance=* key describes the point where you can go into a building or enclosed area (such as a zoo, theme park 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).
Contents
Tagging
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Rendering | Photo |
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| entrance | yes | 
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An entrance exists at this position. | 
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| entrance | main |
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The main entrance of a public building. | 
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| entrance | service |
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A backdoor to a building or enclosed area often only for employees or for delivering. | ||
| entrance | exit |
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It is not an entrance, it is a one-way out of a building. You find it at some larger shops or museums. |  | |
| entrance | emergency |
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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[1] |
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Door to staircase. | ||
| entrance | home[1] |
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Door to a private house, home or an apartment. |
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.
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.
- There is an ITO Map showing building=entrance and entrance=* in Europe (?) (go to map).
- Or use Keep Right's "deprecated tags" for the whole world (go to map).
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 number of flats inside staircase, for example, addr:flats=1-20. If there is only one flat behind door, the number is the value: addr:flats=14. If there are gaps in numbers, use semicolons: addr:flats=3-7;10;14;16-18.
See also
- Proposed features/entrance - proposal/voting page for this tag
- building=entrance - older tag used for the same feature
- emergency=emergency_ward_entrance
- Proposed_features/entrance/door - proposal/voting page for this tag
- door=* - kind of door (automatic, hinged, ...)
- amenity=parking_entrance
- barrier=entrance
- Relations of type=building which, for indoor mapping, should at least have one member with the role "entrance"
- exit=*
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 This value is not in original proposal, but is widely used.
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