How best to tag drive-through elements?

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Fantastic. :slight_smile:

This info really helps around fast food restaurants or banks.

Personally, I just mark:

  • highway=service
  • service=drive-through
  • oneway=yes

From there, if there is some sort of awning (or height bar) in the drivethrough, you can add optional:

  • maxheight
    • (OSM Wiki)
    • (To be quick, I add maxheight on the whole way.)

and I even add:

  • surface
    • Sometimes the drivethroughs are concrete instead of asphalt.

Clearance Bar

You can add a little node on the way with:

  • barrier=height_restrictor

Note: Put it exactly where the drive-through lane goes under the bar.

Flat-top Canopy + Awning

Personally, I don’t draw it as a separate thing. To be quick, I just have the awning drawn as part of the entire building.

As I’m drawing the drivethrough lane, I then do this:

1. Add 1 node right BEFORE the awning + 1 node right AFTER.

2. Attach the rest of the drivethrough like any other road.

3. Split the way.

In ID, you can do that by:

  • Shift+Left-Click on the 2 nodes (before/after awning)
  • Press X.
    • Or you can also Right-Click > Split
      • (The icon looks like scissors.)

4. Then tag the little piece under the awning as:

  • covered=yes

5. Then, I:

  • Mark the actual building as layer=1
    • since it will be “above” the little drivethrough road.

So you’ll ultimately have 3 separate drive-through pieces:

  1. Driving in to place your order.
    • Going through and towards the pick-up window.
  2. Under the awning.
    • Has covered=yes, because it’s under a roof.
  3. Driving away.
    • So this attaches back to the parking lot/aisle and leads you out.

Side Note 1: And for that little piece of road under the roof, make sure you use:

  • covered=yes

and not the accidental:

  • tunnel=building_passage
    • This is for tunnels going through the middle of buildings.

That’s an extremely common error I see.

Side Note 2: While you are there, instead of having the generic building=yes…

You may also want to tag the actual building as:

  • building=retail
    • If fast food.
  • building=bank
    • If it’s a bank.

This helps incrementally make the map a little better. :slight_smile:

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