Key:car

This feature has been labeled as deprecated. The recommended replacement is: motorcar=*.
The reason is documented in Deprecated features. You are still free to continue to use or interpret this tag as you see fit since OpenStreetMap does not have “banned features”.
Under no circumstances should you (semi-)automatically change “deprecated” tags to something else in the database on a large scale without conforming to the automated edits code of conduct. Any such change will be reverted.

This tag was used mainly in connection with charging_station, with a value of yes or no to indicate whether the charging station was suitable for cars or not.

Sometimes this key was used as an Access tag, instead of motorcar=*.

However, the key motorcar=* is more common and it is recommended to use it, instead of this key.

Transition plan

Transition stats

• History use of the car=* tag: https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/car/
• History use of both car=* and motorcar=* tags: https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/car/&***/motorcar/

Tasks

Please help the community to transition from car=* to motorcar=* with the following tasks:

Documentation

Task	English	Every other language	Comment
Update amenity=charging wiki page	yes	yes
Update car=* wiki page	yes	yes
Update motorcar=* wiki page	N/A	N/A	nothing special to add or change here
Update the deprecated features page	yes	N/A
Update every single page mentioning the car=* tag (listed here)	yes	N/A	Every relevant page have been updated
Update car data item	yes	N/A
Update amenity=charging_station data item	yes	N/A
[Please add any documentation that might be relevant]	N/A	N/A
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Tools

See projects using Key:car at taginfo for more details about the tools using this tag.

Mission	Task	URL of the request	Status	Comment
Use motorcar instead of car in amenity=charging preset in every editors	Update JOSM preset	https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/18659#ticket	yes
	Update ID preset		N/A	ID preset does not set the kind of vehicles that can be charged
	Update Vespucci preset	https://github.com/simonpoole/beautified-JOSM-preset/pull/179	yes
	Update OSM Contributor preset	https://github.com/jawg/h2geo-presets/pull/47	yes
Suggest to switch from car to motorcar in every Q/A tools	Create an Osmose rule		N/A	Osmose already uses the wiki Template:Deprecated_features to create rules
	Create a rule in JOSM/Validator preset	https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/18659#ticket	yes
	Create a rule in ID	https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/7339	yes
Others	Use motorcar in every relevant NSI entries		no	TODO
	Use motorcar in every relevant Osmose open data integration		yes	only one, for whole France
[Please add any editor, tool or render that might be relevant]	N/A	N/A	N/A
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Mechanical edits

France : done