Key:fhrs:id
 fhrs:id
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| Description |
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The ID of an establishment under the UK's Food Hygiene Rating Scheme. 
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| Group: references |
| URL pattern |
| https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/$1 |
| Used on these elements |
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| Useful combination |
| See also |
| Status: imported |
| Tools for this tag |
An fhrs:id tag gives the ID of a food establishment within the FHRS dataset. The UK Food Hygiene Rating System of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, provides official food hygiene ratings for restaurants, cafes, schools, hospitals and other places that prepare, serve or sell food. A tag fhrs:id=* can be used to specify the ID of an establishment in this system. The ID value is a number.
Setting the tag is a way of clearly indicating that this OpenStreetMap object describes the same real-world establishment as this particular "establishment" record in the FHRS dataset, and that other imported field values should correspond.
FHRS ids in URLs
The URL of the corresponding page on the Food Standards Agency website can be obtained from the ID by prepending the string "https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/en-GB/" for example https://ratings.food.gov.uk/business/en-GB/426472
The key fhrs:id=* can be used in the same way for the Food Hygiene Information scheme used in Scotland. This scheme has a different rating system, but an appropriate URL can be formed from the ID in the same way.
See UK Food Hygiene Rating System#Example data for an example
How to map
 | FHRS contains some duplicates, and also some listings for food businesses that have closed down. |
Before adding an FHRS ID to the map, check the rating date provided by the FSA and try to confirm that the business is present at the provided address. An on-location survey may help, and searching for the business name and/or address on the FSA food ratings website is a useful way to check whether any newer ratings have superseded it.
If you sense that an FHRS ID is stale, then it is safer not to add it to the map.
Fresh FHRS IDs can be added, and should usually be linked to an existing node or building in OSM, replacing the existing fhrs:id=* value (if any).
If you can't find an existing element on the map to add the tag to, then be aware that presence in FHRS alone is not sufficient reason to create one for it. Instead, you should check that the business is accessible to customers and verifiable at a fixed location -- if it is, then you can go ahead and create it, or leave a descriptive note about it for other mappers to pick up later.
The web-based FHODOT tool provides assistance to identify opportunities to add FHRS data to OpenStreetMap.
Examples
One OSM place to many FHRS IDs
In ~1% of cases, multiple FHRS IDs (delimited by the ; symbol) are tagged on a single element. For example:
Bonnie and Wild - a food court- Microshops Ipswich - shops within a shared location
Deliveroo Editions - a cluster of kitchens used by separate caterers
One FHRS ID to many OSM places
A single kitchen with a rating published by the Food Standards Agency may prepare food that is served at multiple locations:
In these cases, each separate element shares the same fhrs:id=* value.