Tag:amenity=prison

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Public-images-osm logo.svg amenity = prison
Osaka keimusho.jpg
Description
A prison or jail where people are incarcerated before trial or after conviction Show/edit corresponding data item.
Rendering in OSM Carto
Prison-16.svg
Rendering in OSM Carto area
Area amenity=prison.png
Group: amenities
Used on these elements
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 building or other facility to which people are legally committed as punishment for a crime or while awaiting trial.[1]

Tagging

Draw the prison as closed way for the prison's outline (land in preference to buildings).

Draw it as a single node if you only know the vague position of the prison, but not its outline.

Only tag each prison once, there is no point in having both a node and closed way for the same prison.

Example

Prison in Stuttgart, Germany

Picture Tags OSM Carto
Justizvollzugsanstalt Stuttgart (3).JPG amenity=prison
name=JVA Stammheim
  1. “OED”. December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 11, 2015.