Tag:building=guardhouse
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A small building constructed to house guard(s). 
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A small building constructed to house guard(s), common at supervised parking lots, at entrances to industrial or military complexes, at closed apartment complexes and other areas that are surveilled by guards.
Example photos
larger guardhouse at the Petersburg outpost.
example of a guard post in a container
Similar tags
- office=security — for offices of private security companies
- building=kiosk — for other small buildings where goods or services are provided to the public
- barrier:personnel=*
- amenity=security_booth
- amenity=checkpoint
See also
- Talk:Tag:office=security#Entrance guard post — discussion in the OSM Wiki (February 2020)
- Talk:Tag:amenity=security booth#Relationship with building=guardhouse — discussion about the difference between building=guardhouse and amenity=security booth
- Proposal:Security guard
External discussions
- Guard booth building type — thread in the tagging mailing list (October 2019)
- Tagging for guard huts/booths — Q&A at help.openstreetmap.org (May 2021)
- building=kiosk for guard posts? — thread in the tagging mailing list (July 2022)
- Guard posts and police cabinets — discussion in the Community forum (July 2022)
- new building type: security checkpoint — issue in the StreetComplete repository (September 2022)
- osmus.slack.com discussion
External references
- Guardhouse on Wikipedia