Key:entrance

entrance
Description
To mark the location of an entrance.
Rendering in openstreetmap-carto
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Group: Man made
Used on these elements
Useful combination
access=yes/private name=* ref=* wheelchair=yes/no/limited
Wikidata
Q1137365
Status: approved
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The entrance=* key describes the point where you can go into a building or enclosed area (such as a zoo, theme park, cemetery grounds etc). Different values are used to denote the importance or type of entrance. The entrance node should be placed on the building/area's way (i.e. its outline).

Tagging

Key	Value	Element	Comment	Carto Rendering	Carto Rendering	Photo
entrance	yes		An entrance exists at this position to a building or enclosed area.
entrance	main		The main entrance of a building or enclosed area.
entrance	service		A backdoor to a building or enclosed area often only for employees or for delivering.
entrance	exit		It is not an entrance, it is a one-way out of a building or enclosed area. You find it at some larger shops, museums or theme parks.
entrance	emergency		An emergency exit is a one-way out of a building in case of fire. It is often combined with a fire alarm box. See also exit=emergency for these.
entrance	staircase		Door to staircase.
entrance	home		Door to a private house, home or an apartment.

How to place nodes tagged with "entrance".

Please use the access=* values to describe who is allowed to enter.

• access=yes The public has an official, legally-enshrined right of access.
• access=delivery Access only for delivering goods to or from a customer.
• access=private Access only with key, keycard or similar. Look here for additional subtags.
• access=no Access is not allowed.

If you don't need a key to go out from a building or restricted area, you can mark this with exit=yes. This tagging has sense, if rules for exit are different from rules for entrance.

Accessibility combinations

• Use wheelchair=yes to describe the entrance possibilities for a wheelchair user.
• You can add width=* to indicate small doors for wheelchair routing.
• You can add automatic_door=yes to indicate automatic doors for wheelchair users and to warn visually impaired / blind users.

Rendering

• MapSurfer.NET shows entrances as small dots at zoom level 18 and 19 (go to map).
• OsmAnd shows entrances in its default mappaint style.
• There is an ITO Map showing building=entrance and entrance=* in Europe (?) (go to map).
• Or use Keep Right's "deprecated tags" for the whole world (go to map).
• OSM2World adds doors to 3D buildings based on entrance=*

Entrances and addresses

Main article: Addresses

If address is related not to whole building, but to individual staircases/entrances, tags entrance=main/staircase/home, addr:housenumber=* and addr:street=* should be added to main entrances to staircases (or to houses). Use ref=* for marking "inner" number of staircase (not to be confused with "outer" address, which some staircases have - for such addresses we should use addr:housenumber=*). addr:housenumber=* is put to one of entrances to staircase, ref=* can be marked to several entrances (also to service entrances to staircases).

Use addr:flats=* for marking all flats inside the staircase, for example, addr:flats=1-20. (This entrance leads to flats/apartments with numbers from 1 to 20 inclusive). If there is only one flat behind the door, the number is the value: addr:flats=14. If there are gaps in numbering, use semicolons: addr:flats=3-7;10;14;16-18.

See also

• Proposed features/entrance - proposal/voting page for this tag
• building=entrance - older tag used for the same feature
• emergency=emergency_ward_entrance
• Proposed_features/entrance/door - proposal/voting page for this tag
• door=* - kind of door (automatic, hinged, ...)
• amenity=parking_entrance
• barrier=entrance
• Relations of type=building which, for indoor mapping, should at least have one member with the role "entrance"
• exit=*

Possible Tagging Mistakes

• building=entrance

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