Key:advertising

Subtags

• support=* - indicates what supports the advertising device.
• size=* - indicates the size of the advertising device including the frame, but without the support (pole, post, mast, ...). Size is provided with two parameters separated with a * : length*height. Dimensions are given in meter.
• height=* - the total height of the advertising object, including the support.
• lit=* - indicates if the advertising device is lit.
• luminous=* - indicates if the advertising device is luminous, i.e. if it emits some light.
• animated=* - indicates if the advertising device is animated, and the way it is animated.
• sides=* - gives the number of sides of the advertising device, default is 1. Number of sides should not be confused with the the number of faces. A 'face' is a single poster which is displayed, and when there are animated devices with winding posters, the number of faces is the number of different posters which are displayed, one after another. Then, different faces can be displayed on a single side.
• operator=* - the company that operates the billboard.
• message=* - gives indication on the type of message displayed.
• ref=* - can be used to add a (e.g. registration) number, useful in some areas where a formal permit is required to set up advertising devices. There might be on each device a fixed plate which is inscribed the name of the company and the network to which it belongs (if any) and the registration number of the device.
• orientation=* - orientation of the advertising device with respect to the flow of vehicles or passerby.
• visibility=* - visibility of the advertising device.

Suggested combinations

In some cases it might be useful to have one or more of the following tags attached to further describe the advertising object.

• brand=* - brand
• width=* - the width of the advertising object. The width must rather be thought as the thickness.
• informal=yes - can be added for advertising in areas where formal permit would be required but the object was mounted without this permit.
• landmark=*
• visibility=* - see amenity=clock
• level=* - to define if the billboard is underground use -1 (i.e. for subway advertising)
• doublesided=yes - to indicate that the advertising device has two faces. The use of sides=2 should be preferred.
• direction=* - to indicate the orientation of the advertising device. The use of orientation=* is different, as it indicates the orientation of the advertising devices with respect to the flow of vehicles or passerby.

Tips

• advertising=yes could be added for bus stops (amenity=bus_station) that have advertising on them (or with benches amenity=bench). But to be able to fully characterize the advertising device, it is preferable to add one OSM node on the transit shelter, and add advertising characteristics on this supplementary node.
• Advertising is almost always commercial advertising, and cannot in that case be considered as an amenity. In some case, there exists specific boards to display opinions, or for free expression, or installed by municipalities for the use of non profit organizations. In these cases you can and should indicate it with the tags advertising=board + message=opinion;non_profit.

Contribution tools

• OSM2World renders billboards (with direction=*), columns and man_made=flagpole.
• OpenAdvertMap shows advertising=* features using a thematic rendering.

Icons

This icone should appear with a large zoom : ([File:Panneau.svg Version SVG] from https://github.com/twain47/Open-SVG-Map-Icons.git)

Other icones suggestions for advertising billboards :

• Advertising billboard on trunk : [File:Billboard_trunk.svg]
• Advertising billboard on poles : [File:Billboard_legs.svg]
• Advertising billboard on wall : [File:Billboard_wall.svg]
• Advertising poster box : [File:Poster_box.svg]
• Advertising poster box on transit shelter : [File:Poster_box_shelter.svg]
• Advertising column : [File:Column.svg]
• Advertising totem : [File:Totem.svg]
• Advertising board : [File:Board.svg]
• Free advertising board : [File:Board_free.svg]
• Indication board : [File:Indication.svg]
• Political board : [File:Political_Board_3.svg]
• Flag: [File:Flag_advertising.svg]