Key:capacity

Description
v · d · e capacity

Describes the capacity a facility is suitable for.
Group: Amenities
Used on these elements

Useful combination
`amenity=bicycle_parking` `amenity=parking` `amenity=taxi` `room=*`
See also
`rooms=` `beds=` `seats=*`
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The tag describes the capacity a facility is suitable for.

Common use cases

The number of vehicles a facility holds, such as amenity=parking, amenity=bicycle_parking or amenity=taxi.
The number of visitors a facility holds, such as leisure=stadium or tourism=camp_site. However, for tourism=hotel, using rooms=* and beds=* is preferred.
The number of children or students, an amenity=kindergarten or amenity=school can accept.
The sleeping capacity of amenity=shelter + shelter_type=basic_hut.

To further define the capacity for special interest groups, additional tags can be used to describe them in addition to the tag capacity=*:

capacity	number	The amount of lots, rooms, seats (or the like) available. (Including all special lots, e.g. parking spaces for disabled drivers)
capacity:disabled	yes/no/number	Defines whether or not dedicated lots, rooms, seats or other spaces for the disabled are available. If known, the number of spaces can be specified.
capacity:women	yes/no/number	Defines whether or not dedicated women's spaces are available. If known, the number of spaces can be specified.
capacity:parent	yes/no/number	Mostly parking areas: Defines whether or not dedicated parent and child parking spaces are available. If known, the number of spaces can be specified.
capacity:charging	yes/no/number	Defines whether or not dedicated parking spaces with charging infrastructure for electric vehicles are available. If known, the number of spaces can be specified.
capacity:hgv capacity:bus capacity:car	yes/no/number	A transportation mode (a.k.a vehicle category) can be added as subkey to mark the number of trucks or buses a parking lot can accomodate.
capacity:pupils capacity:teachers capacity:classrooms	number	Undocumented keys - Number of pupils/students and teachers a school is built for. Almost all occurrences are from few imports of data.