Tag:amenity=taxi

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Hong Kong Taxi - 1-12-2006 - Shatin Taxi Stand.jpg
Description
A place where taxis wait for passengers. Often near where many people congregate. Show/edit corresponding data item.
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Group: amenities
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may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
Status: approvedPage for proposal

A taxi rank (or taxi stand, taxicab stand, etc.) is a place where taxis wait for passengers. Often found at airports, hotels, railway/bus/subway stations, large shopping centers or other places people congregate.

How to map

This tag locates the point where taxis wait, not the point where passengers wait.

Place a node node at the location where taxis wait for passengers and add tag amenity=taxi.

Useful combination

Tag Description
capacity=* Maximum number of taxis that can wait here (rough estimation).
contact:phone=* Phone number to contact the taxi rank.
name=* Name of taxi rank.
opening_hours=* Hours and/or weekdays where the taxi rank is legally in operation
operator=* Operator of taxi stand.
taxi_vehicle=* A way to specify the vehicles used by the taxi stand, such as mototaxis with taxi_vehicle=motorcycle
motorcycle=yes Some mappers have used this access control tag to identify taxi stands that provide motorcycle taxis. This is confusingly inconsistent with its use for access control, and as such is disliked by other mappers. Taxi stands with this tag combination should be changed to the tag above.
motorcar=no Some mappers have used this access control tag to identify taxi stands that do not provide car taxis. This is confusingly inconsistent with its use for access control, and as such is disliked by other mappers.


Taxi Boats

There are isolated cases around the world where boat taxis exist, like in Venice. These are on demand vehicles that are often based on a pier and can be hired from there like a normal taxi. Not to be confused with some other self-called "Taxi Boats" where there are several different passenger hopping on and cruising trough a fixed route, where ferry tagging more suitable is.

In these cases it has been proposed in chat forums to use:

taxi_vehicle=motorboat in combination with amenity=taxi

Note that there is not yet a formal approval since there are still very few documented places with this particularity.

Taxi Boat Stop in Venice

See also

  • taxi=* - Access permission for taxi vehicles