Tag:highway=raceway
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Description |
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A racetrack for motorised racing, e.g. cars, motorbikes and karts. ![]() ![]() |
Rendering in OSM Carto |
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Group: Highways |
Used on these elements |
Useful combination |
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Status: de facto |
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A racetrack for motorised racing, e.g. cars, motorbikes and karts.
How to map
Create a line along the raceway like you map other roads with highway=*.
It is useful to add a relevant sport=* tag such as sport=karting, sport=motocross, sport=rc_car, sport=motor.
For small raceways like for sport=karting or sport=motocross where the exact course of the road is not well-defined or often changes, you can map the whole site as an area and add the tag area=yes.
If the course of the road is well-defined and does not change, but you want to detail the shape of the raceway, you may use the proposed tag area:highway=raceway, mapping the shape of the road as an
area in addition to the course of the road as a
line. This is controversial - see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:highway%3Draceway#Mapping_as_an_area
For the entire area of the motorsport facility, use leisure=sports_centre or leisure=stadium with sport=*.
Related keys
Key | Value | Elements | Comment |
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raceway=* | start/finish/ start-finish |
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Marks the start and end of the track. In cases where this is the same node then a value of start-finish. |
See also
- leisure=sports_centre
- leisure=stadium
- sport=motor
- sport=karting
- sport=motocross
- type=circuit A proposed relation type than can be used for mapping on-street circuits
Possible Tagging Mistakes
Do not use both leisure=track and highway=raceway on the same way.
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