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service
Description
Additional information about a service highway/railway/waterway, or about services offered at a business.
Group:
properties
Used on these
elements
Documented values:
20
Requires
highway
service
or
railway
=*
or
waterway
canal
or
type
route
Useful combination
highway
service
railway
=*
See also
usage
=*
service
bicycle
=*
Status:
de facto
service
More details at tag
info
Tools for this tag
taginfo
AD
AT
BE
BR
BY
CH
CN
CZ
DE
DK
FI
FR
GB
GR
HU
IE (N+S)
IN
IR
IT
LI
LU
JP
KP
KR
NL
NO
PL
PT
RU
ES
AR
MX
CO
BO
CL
EC
PY
PE
UY
VE
TW
UA
US
VN
overpass-turbo
QLever
Postpass via overpass-turbo
OSM Tag History
The service tag provides additional information that depends on the context of the
top-level tag
on the same object. (
service
=*
should not appear in isolation.) It is used to describe details about types of "service" roads, railways or waterways; or the service or services offered by a business.
Contents
Highways
Railways
2.1
Yard
2.2
Siding track
2.3
Spur track
2.4
Crossover track
2.5
Trams
2.6
Train routes
Business services
Waterways
Aerodrome tower
References
Highways
The service tag can be used to provide more information for a
highway
service
road. Add a
oneway
yes/no
tag if appropriate.
service
parking_aisle
service
driveway
service
alley
service
emergency_access
for emergency services such as firefighters, police or ambulances
service
drive-through
service
slipway
service
User Defined
Railways
service
=*
is used to describe minor tracks, which still are tagged with
railway
=*
, at railway stations and yards more detailed.
Tracks running straightforward through a station without turning right or left at switches are tagged
usage
main/branch/industrial/military/test
without
service
=*
. This is useful for map renderers (e.g. OSM Carto) which can hide minor tracks at lower zoom levels and for railway routing engines which can prefer the fastest way through a station (turning left/right at a switch requires the engineman to reduce the speed).
service
=*
is more or less independent from the train classes using a track. The
service
=*
tag does not care if a track is only used by local trains or by long distance or high speed trains.
service
=*
and
usage
main/branch
are only dependent from signalling, the permitted speed on the tracks and the points.
A track is either tagged with
usage
=*
or
with
service
=*
! Exceptions only exist for harbour, industrial, mine, and military railway lines. Only those tracks may be tagged with both
usage
industrial/military
and
service
=*
at the same OSM object.
See also
landuse
railway
about mapping not accessible railway yard areas.
Yard
service
yard
railway:track_ref
This tag is used for the tracks at yard stations which are operated by the railway company itself. These are different from spur tracks, usually operated by the "company" (power plant, mine, harbour, factory...) where the spur ends.
The difference between a yard and a siding track is the absense of main signals at yard tracks while siding tracks have main signals.
Some yards have track numbers you can see from outside the yard area. They are tagged using
railway:track_ref
=*
. Sometimes this numbers only can be derived from the signal numbers.
Please note that
service
yard
usually also encompasses what in UK terminology would actually be called a
siding
Siding track
service
siding
This tag is used for tracks which run parallel to the main track and are connected to it. These tracks are used by slower trains to be overtaken or to let passengers enter/leave the train if the main tracks do not have platforms. These tracks might be hard to differ from the main tracks in some cases.
Under UK terminology these are usually known as passing or crossing loops. Conversely, please note that what is known as
sidings
in UK terminology, in OSM usually needs to be tagged as
service
yard
Spur track
service
spur
operator
This tag is used for short tracks connecting a factory, harbour, mine or power plant to the railway network.
Crossover track
service
crossover
This tag is used for only few metres long tracks connecting to tracks of different directions of traffic.
To be found only on double or more tracked railways. Often found in stations and at (crossover) junctions.
If a crossover track connects to spur tracks, it should be tagged with
service
spur
. Crossover between two
service
yard
is also
service
yard
Tracks should only be tagged with
service
crossover
if they connect to tracks which have
usage
main/branch/…
and no
service
=*
tag.
See
and
for discussion.
Trams
Tram tracks are tagged as
railway
tram
. Tram-specific
service
=*
values were never defined, and editors
iD
and
JOSM
use the railway values (crossover, siding, spur, and yard) as presets. However, tram systems rarely have spurs or sidings as seen on mainline railways. Prior to 2019,
service
yard
service
siding
and
service
spur
were in practice used interchangeably, except that tracks inside tram yards (garages, depots) were fairly consistently tagged
service
yard
In March 2019,
User:Jarek Piórkowski
suggests repurposing the railway values with tram-specific meanings to allow future tagging to be more consistent:
"Normal" tracks have no service tag. These are typically tracks serving a stop where a passenger can expect to regularly board a tram. This would also include tracks that a scheduled tram servicing a route connecting these stops uses (for example end-route loops).
Tram systems can have significant differences between cities, so definition of what are "normal" tracks or what "regular" service is might differ between cities, but try to be consistent within a city/system.
service
yard
for tracks within tram storage and work areas ("yards", "garages", "depots" - where trams are parked overnight, maintained, light repairs), and for tracks leading to the yard, provided they don't have regular passenger service stops. Example in Helsinki:
44919957
44919957
service
crossover
for tracks used by double-ended trams to change direction. Only use it between two main tracks with no service tag, otherwise use service tag of the tracks that are connected.
service
siding
for tracks not described above. These will be tracks not used for normally scheduled passenger service, including diversion-only tracks, emergency, non-revenue trackage, as well as turn tracks not used in scheduled service. Example in Berlin:
153424828
153424828
See
for more information including overview of tagging in January 2019.
Train routes
Can be used in combination with
type
route
on train routes for the type of train service. This tag should make distinction between different types of train easier beyond borders in order that users do not have to parse reference numbers.
service
tourism
(trains for tourists, often historic vehicles),
service
night
(night trains with sleeping cars),
service
car_shuttle
(car shuttle trains through tunnels),
service
car
(long distance trains with double-deck car carrier),
service
commuter
(urban mass transit service, short headways; e.g.,
S-train
),
service
regional
(local train),
service
long_distance
(long distance trains; e.g., InterCity, EuroCity, InterRegio)
service
high_speed
(high speed trains; e.g., ICE, TGV)
See
Public transport#Service routes
Note: Except for
service
car
being used on Amtrak's Auto Train, tagging
service
=*
on a
type
route
route
train
does not appear to be in wide use in USA (possibly North American) rail tagging. This tagging does seem prevelant in Europe.
Business services
The service tag should not be used to specify the services provided by businesses, including services to vehicles.
Instead use
service
vehicle
=*
For bicycle shops, use
service
bicycle
=*
Waterways
The service tag can be used to distinguish between open man-made waterways (
waterway
canal
) for transportation, water power, or irrigation. However, the tag
usage
=*
is now more common for this purpose.
service
irrigation
service
water_power
Aerodrome tower
The service tag can be used to mark an Air Traffic Control Tower (aerodrome tower).
service
aircraft_control
References
Quincy Morgan:
Add highway tags to addTags of slipways as lines
iD
, 2019-04-22
online
GitHub
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