Key:appointment

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appointment
Description
Denotes whether an amenity allows you to make appointments
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesuse on ways unspecifiedmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)use on relations unspecified
See also
Status: in use

Denotes whether an amenity allows you to book appointments if it isn't required to do so.

Values

  • yes - An amenity allows you to book appointments
  • only - An amenity is only open by appointment
  • required - Same meaning as above
  • no - You can't book an amenity (default)

Comparison to opening hours syntax

An advantage of having a separate appointment tag is that it allows for standardised evaluation for amenity where you can (or must) book appointments. As opening_hours=* is specified, appointments can only be specified by a comment (e.g. opening_hours="on appointment") which is less machine readable than having a separate key and both tags can be together to denote the possibility to book appointments alongside regular opening hours. As appointment=* is used, though, you can't use it to specify specific days which are open by appointment only (e.g. fixed opening hours on weekdays but by appointment on Saturday).