Tag:amenity=animal_shelter
 amenity = animal_shelter
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A shelter for animal recovery. 
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An animal shelter is a facility where animals in trouble are brought and facility's staff (volunteers or not) feeds them and cares of them, rehabilitating and healing them if necessary. This definition includes kennels for abandoned dogs, catteries for abandoned cats, shelters for other abandoned pets and wildlife recovery centres.
Tagging
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| amenity=animal_shelter | Mandatory, the main tag to identify a place as an animal shelter. |
| animal_shelter=<animal>[;<animal>...] | Optional, it lists the kinds of animals kept in the shelter. For more info on how to set <animal>, see Kinds of animals accepted. |
| animal_shelter:<purpose>=yes/no/<animal>[;<animal>...] | Optional, it specifies the reason why animals are in the shelter, see Shelter's purpose for <purpose> values. If you set this tag, you must also list all kinds of animals accepted in animal_shelter=<animal>: if all animals are kept for the same purpose, set yes in this tag, otherwise set a different list of animals. For more info on how to set <animal>, see Kinds of animals accepted. If one or more animals are kept for different purposes, set an animal_shelter:<purpose>=<animal>[;<animal>...] subkey for each purpose. |
| name=* | Optional, it specifies the name of the facility. |
| operator=* | Optional, it specifies the company, corporation, person or any other entity who is in charge the facility. |
These tags should be used to tag the whole facility area. If within this area you can distinguish buildings, lawns, courtyards, fences, you can tag them properly with building=yes, landuse=grass and so on.
Shelter's purpose
The main reasons why animals are kept in a shelter are specified with the subkey <purpose>:
| <purpose> | Description | Concept on Wikidata |
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| adoption | to give animals (usually stray pets) up for adoption; | ![[W]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png "Wikidata"){kind=logo} Q7171565
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| release | to rehabilitate injured animals (usually wildlife) and then release them in nature. | Q69676094
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| sanctuary | to care for abused or abandoned animals (usually animals that were rescued from animal farms and/or wildlife that can't be released back into nature) for their remaining life. | Q1533036
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Kinds of animals accepted
To specify which kinds of animals are kept in the facility you have to insert them in the value field using the common English singular form (e.g. dog and not dogs, bird and not birds).
Multiple kinds of animals: you can set multiple values at the same time if the facility keeps more than one kind of animals, for example dogs and cats. In this case you have to separate values with semicolon ";".
| animal_shelter | Animals accepted | Concept on Wikidata |
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| dog | dogs | Q144
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| cat | cats | Q146
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| horse | horses | Q726
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| wildlife | any species of wild animals | Q241741
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| fish | any species of fishes | Q152
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| amphibian | any species of amphibia | Q10908
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| reptile | any species of reptiles | Q10811
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| bird | any species of birds | Q5113
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| mammal | any species of mammals | Q7377
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| sea_mammal | any species of sea mammals | ? |
| sea_animal | any species of sea animals (i.e. sea mammals, sea turtles, fishes...) | Q1230015
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| <user defined> | a kind of animals or a group of animals you can specify. You should prefer commonly used values according to Taginfo |
Scientific name: If you want to specify the scientific animal's name you can add additional tags species=*, or genus=*, or taxon=*. This is optional, the main tag is as described above.
Sheltering service as secondary activity
A structure of any type with its own main purpose (e.g. a veterinary or an animal boarding facility) can offer animal sheltering as secondary service. In this case the facility should be tagged according to its main purpose (e.g. amenity=veterinary, amenity=animal_boarding) and then add a secondary tag that is:
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| animal_shelter=yes/no/<animal>[;<animal>...] | Sheltering service is offered for listed animals; use yes only if you don't know the kinds of animals accepted. For more info on how to set <animal>, see Kinds of animals accepted. |
Rendering
- Not currently rendered by Standard tile layer - OSM-carto, see issue: GitHub
Potential Renderings:
for adoption shelters
for release in nature shelters
Examples
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| amenity=animal_shelter | A generic animal shelter, unknown type of animals kept, unknown reason why they are there |
| amenity=animal_shelter animal_shelter=dog |
A shelter for dogs (a kennel), unknown reason why dogs are kept |
| amenity=animal_shelter animal_shelter=dog animal_shelter:adoption=yes |
A shelter for dogs, a kennel that gives dogs up on adoption |
| amenity=animal_shelter animal_shelter=wildlife animal_shelter:release=yes |
A shelter for any species of wild animals, that rehabilitates and releases them in nature |
| amenity=animal_shelter animal_shelter=bird;sea_animal animal_shelter:release=yes |
A shelter for any species of birds and sea animals, that rehabilitates and releases them in nature |
| amenity=animal_shelter animal_shelter=dog;cat;wildlife animal_shelter:adoption=dog;cat animal_shelter:release=wildlife |
A shelter for dogs, cats and wildlife, it gives dogs and cats up on adoption and releases wild animals in nature |
| amenity=animal_shelter animal_shelter=cat animal_shelter:adoption=yes animal_boarding=cat |
A shelter for cats, a cattery that gives cats up on adoption, but it also boards owned cats as secondary service |
| amenity=animal_shelter animal_shelter=dog;cat animal_shelter:adoption=yes animal_boarding=cat |
A shelter for dogs and cats that gives both of them up on adoption but boards only cats as secondary service |
| amenity=veterinary animal_shelter=dog;cat animal_boarding=cat |
A veterinary that offers, as secondary services, sheltering for stray dogs and cats and boarding for owned cats |
Related tags
- amenity=animal_boarding – for an animal boarding facility
- amenity=animal_breeding – for an animal breeding facility
- man_made=insect_hotel – a man made structure to provide shelter for insects
- landuse=animal_keeping – to map an area that is used to keep animals, nor for breeding, nor to rescue them; for breedings is more appropriate amenity=animal_breeding
- man_made=nesting_site – is man made device equipped with one or multiple nests, serving as an artificial nesting aid for wild animals
- shelter_type=field_shelter – a building located in the countryside intended to provide shelter for animals
- historic=pound – for historic outdoor structures that were used to hold stray or seized animals in a rural community
See also
Possible tagging mistakes
Note that at least some shelter_type=animal_shelter are definitely not for amenity=animal shelter but for some other feature, see https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1019812059
External links
- Animal shelter on Wikipedia