Tagging pet-friendly location

Hey y’all, when looking for something to do for the day or even planning out trips on the road, I often find myself struggling to conveniently find pet-friendly spaces my dog and I can visit. Obviously, areas specifically marked dog_park or dog=yes are fair game but is there a more general tagging scheme I am missing on the wiki for a pet friendly location. In the southeastern US, many chains (Tractor Supply, Petsmart, etc.) and small businesses welcome pets with a sign on the door but the assumption should be service animals only unless they have such a sign.

On a recent survey, I tagged Node: ‪Kreamkles Rolled Ice Cream‬ (‪12512650294‬) | OpenStreetMap as note=pet-friendly since this sign was present, but should I have gone with dog=yes or something else instead? Thanks in advance!

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The Mapcomplete pets layer just seems to put dog=yes/no/leashed/unleashed/outside tag on the shops and restaurants.

So at least one map supports that tagging.

So it would be appropriate to tag shops and restaurants as dog=yes if they display a pet-friendly tag?

Seems reasonable to me. It’s essentially an access tag with a few special values and the owners are saying that dogs are allowed in.

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I think that’s the key - some sort of verifiable signage. Previous _friendly suggestions have had pushback because you were supposed to tell from the ambience of the place whether it was “ABC friendly” or not, but a sign on the door is clearly verifiable.

Does this also apply to, say, a pet-friendly hotel where it’s posted pet-friendly (perhaps with an additional fee) but would not apply solely to dog=*?

There is also a pets key. (Looks like it currently has ~1.8k uses.)

This is what the OSM Wiki page on it currently says:

The key pets=* is sometimes used to indicate whether a feature or venue, such as a restaurant, cafe, mall, hotel, or beach allows pets to accompany their owners or sitters.

Seems like that’s exactly what you want.


So, you’d tag:

  • pets=yes
    • Pets are allowed.
  • pets=no
    • Pets are not allowed.
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