Tag:building=garage

The tag building=garage is used for single-user or single-owner private garage buildings.

For larger, multi-user private garage buildings, see building=garages.

For car storage buildings without walls, see building=carport.

For public car parking, see amenity=parking.

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parking or building

Mappers may wonder whether to tag this type of closed car parking as a building=garage or as amenity=parking+parking=garage_boxes.

These two approaches represent different concepts:

• The first (building=*) describes a physical structure without necessarily implying its usage. Areas mapped this way will not be recognised as parking by parking-related applications. It allows all attributes related to permanent buildings (construction_date=*, height=*, building:architecture=*, etc.).
• The second (parking=*) explicitly describes the land use as parking without describing the physical structure itself. It allows all attributes relevant to parking (fee=*, capacity=*, etc.).

Both approaches may coexist: two overlapping (depending on whether the garage structure covers the whole building footprint or only part of it), or a for the building combined with a for the parking.

In practice, since most parking=garage_boxes are not publicly accessible, recognising them as parking or attaching attributes such as fee or capacity is often of limited relevance. For this reason, such areas are more commonly mapped as building=garage rather than amenity=parking+parking=garage_boxes.

See also

• landuse=garages
• parking=garage_boxes
• shop=car_repair a garage where you can get your car repaired, a commercial car workshop
• entrance=garage
• building=hangar