Tag:emergency=yes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
![]() |
![]() |
Description |
---|
Used either to indicate that a hospital is equipped to deal with emergencies or that a road is accessible to emergency services. ![]() |
Group: Emergency |
Used on these elements |
Status: de facto |
|
Tools for this tag |
|
Wikidata |
Search Wikidata |
As a hospital property
emergency=yes is used[1] to indicate whether a hospital (amenity=hospital or healthcare=hospital) is equipped to deal with emergencies. See also emergency=emergency_ward_entrance.
As an access tag
emergency=yes is used[2] to indicate that a given road is accessible to a emergency services, what may be considered as a strong hint that given road is free from physical obstacles. Note that as emergency vehicles are by definition not restricted by legal access - so for example road with highway=service + access=private may be inaccessible to emergency vehicles if there are no mapped physical obstacles.
For places explicitly designated for emergency access consider emergency=designated.