Tag:building=gatehouse
 building = gatehouse
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An entry control point building, spanning over a highway that enters a city or compound. 
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building=gatehouse is used to tag an entry control point building, spanning over a highway that enters a city or compound.
Typical usage is for gates in city walls or gatehouses for large estates, largely as described in ![[W]](/w/images/2/24/Wikipedia-16px.png "Wikipedia"){kind=small}
Gatehouse. Many of these are of significant cultural, architectural and historic interest.
City gates that were historically used as part of a city wall or are in use are better specified as historical=city_gates.(Example: Belgrade Gate, Istanbul)
A secondary usage (conflicting with "spanning over a highway") in some countries is for small modern buildings at the entrances to large commercial, industrial, military or academic (university) sites) housing security personnel who control access to the site, see Guardhouse. At present no additional tag distinguishes between these meanings.
For such uses building=guardhouse may be more fitting.
How to map
Draw the building over the highway entering the city or compound. Add two nodes where the way crosses the building (one on the outside and one on the inside 'side' of the gatehouse). Use tunnel=building_passage on the section of highway covered by the building.
Gallery
The main gate of the high school attached to the College of Education, Gongju University
Yeongnampojeongsa Temple in Jinjuseong, Korea
Beomeosa Temple Cheonwangmun in Korea
Comparison
This is an example, not a 'gatehouse'.
A structure marking a gateway, or "Iljumun" in Korea, is a structure with a single row of columns or no walls. They do not serve as gates, but merely mark the beginning of an area.
Instead, use man_made=iljumun for "Iljumun".[1]
Iljumun Gate of Naesosa Temple in Neunggasan, Buan-gun, South Korea
Iljoomoon of Ssangbong-Sa in Hwasun, Korea
Seouimun Gate, one of the local gateways to Andong, South Korea
See also
- tunnel=building_passage
- barrier=sally_port
- barrier=toll_booth
- highway=toll_gantry
- historic=city_gate
- building=guardhouse
- man_made=iljumun
Reference
- ↑ Other common regional gateways remain controversial. - What tags should be attached to structures that are neither gates nor even gatehouses?