Key:route

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Description
A customary or regular line of passage or travel, often predetermined and publicized Edit this description in the wiki page. Edit this description in the data item.
Group: routes
Used on these elements
should not be used on nodesmay be used on waysshould not be used on areasmay be used on relations
Documented values: 42
Status: de facto

This key is be used to describe a route: a customary or regular line of passage or travel, often predetermined and publicized. Routes consist of paths taken repeatedly by people and vehicles: a ship on the North Atlantic route, a car on a numbered road, a bus on its route or a cyclist on a national route.

How to map

On relations

Use on relations relation (which means in combination with type=route) is by far the most common approach,

See relation:route

On ways

In specific cases route=* can be used on ways way, however not when combined with a value for a mode of transport from access=*.

For instance route=foot; route=bicycle or route=horse may be used on relations relation (for signposted routes), but should not be used on ways way.

See relation:route#Route types (route)

Examples where route=* may be used on ways way include:

Common values

To help mappers find a suitable category in OSM to describe a relation in the real world, the values below are ordered by general route type. For an alphabetic list of the most commonly accepted values, please see Map Features#Route (also included in Relation:route).

Public transport routes

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Motorized land routes

Please note that route=railway and route=tracks refer to the infrastructure, regardless of their use for either public transport, freight transport, etc.

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Non-motorized vehicles

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Although wheelchair-users often follow the access-restrictions for pedestrians, in OSM-access they are classified under vehicles, see Key:access#Land-based transportation

Pedestrians / without a vehicle

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Depending on legislation users of inline_skates may follow the rules for pedestrians or bicycles, in OSM inline_skates are not counted in the vehicle-category, see Key:access#Land-based transportation

With animals

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Unmotorized winter sports

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Water routes

Please note that Tag:route=ferry has a wide variety of forms: it can be either a form of regular public transport (where people are transported based on a timetable), but it can also be an simple self operated cable pontoon across a canal on a hiking route on non-public land.

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Routes not taken by people and vehicles (controversial)

The values below are controversial as noted in the linked wiki-pages; they are not regular routes of travel (for people and vehicles, vessels or livestock) as meant above. However they are used more often than many of the values above.

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See also same kind of logic but without using routes: