Key:booth

The design of a telephone box, how it looks.

Usage

This is a properties tag and should mostly be used in combination with telephone.

• amenity=telephone
  • covered=booth
  • booth=*

Many phone boxes have found new uses; e.g., housing defibrillators, public bookcases or tourist information.

Values in use in Germany

Value	Description	Example picture
FeH_26	Octagonal in blue or yellow with five windows per side and the writing (in gothic script) "Offentlicher Fernsprecher" at the top
FeH_32	Rectangular with seven windows per side in yellow or red, with a flared roof edging with "Fernsprecher" (in gothic script)
FeH_55	Rectangular, made of steel with just one window per side	originally yellow, this one has been converted into a book swap and has been painted red
TelH_72
TelH_78	Rectanguar with curved in corners in yellow, two window per side (also with curved corners)
TelH_90	Originally grey and magenta with full length windows
TelH_90_Sh	Eight windows per side (in four rows) with pointy roof.
TelH_90_Sm	Mostly glass sided with pillar at each corner.
TelH_08	A silver cabin made of stainless steel with four windows, without any door.
Telefonsäule	Telephone with support but no shelter Please do not use this value, because 'Telefonsäule' is not a booth. The correct key for describing this kind of telephone and its cover is model=*. For details, please have a look at the German page for amenity=telephone for how these German models of telephone pillars get tagged.

Values in use in Ireland

Value	Description	Example picture
K1	Early phone box, rare, made of concrete, originally painted white and green.
Telefon	Early phone box, quite rare, made of concrete, originally painted white. There are also wooden replica Telefon boxes containing defibrillators.
Eircom
Teileafon	Modern open kiosk with internet

Values in use in Norway

Value	Description	Example picture
Riks	There are 100 preserved in Norway, some used as book swaps.

Values in use in United Kingdom

Value	Description	Example picture
K1	Early phone box, quite rare, made of concrete, originally painted white.  K1
K2	Large cast iron phone box, mainly only found in London, is larger than the more common K6 and has 18 portrait orientated window panes per side compared to the landscape orientated window panes found in the K6.  K2	K2 phonebox (right) next to K6 phonebox (left)
K3	Cheaper concrete version of the K2, very few remaining.  K3
K4␣Post␣Office	Combined phonebox and postbox, similar to K2 phonebox but larger and with a postbox and stamp machine on one side. There are only six left in the UK.  K4
K6	Most common type of red BT phone box, usually red (except in Hull where they are white/cream) or where they have been repurposed.  K6
K8	Phone box with just a single window pane per side produced in the 60s and 70s usually red, but white/cream in Hull.  K8
KX100	Aluminium and glass phone box produced in the 80s and 90s, some have doors some do not.  KX100
KX200	Half a booth made of aluminium and glass  KX200
KX300	A three sided version of the KX100.  KX300
KX410	KX410
KX420	KX420
KX520	KX520
KXPlus	Aluminium and glass phone box produced since the 90s, very similar to the KX100 but with a domed plastic roof.  KXPlus
oakham	Small yellow telephone cover said to resemble Oakham meat tins
ST6	An advertising board with a phone stuck on the back. (ST is abbreviation for Street Talk)  ST6
InLink	Double-sided electronic freestanding advertising board with WiFi, tablet, USB ports and free public phone on the narrow side.  LinkUK
NWPyramid	New World payphone; three-sided box with a pyramid top. can have a phone icon on the roof edge, and WiFi. Usually black or red.
NWCapped	New World payphone; three-sided box with a pyramid top, capped with a smaller pyramid. can have a phone icon on the roof edge, and WiFi. Usually black or red.

This tagging is used for public telephones (amenity=telephone). The tag covered=booth was chosen because the tag shelter=yes does not have the same meaning. shelter=yes on an object shows that there is an amenity=shelter at this object and this is not the same as a phone booth. A phone booth is intended to cover the person who is using the phone, but it's not a shelter where several people can wait on a bus or stay protecting them from rain comfortably.

Please note that covered=booth is the above-tag for the key booth=*, which specifies the type of booth.

For tagging a phone booth which is used as a public bookcase, please use amenity=public_bookcase + public_bookcase:type=phone_box + booth=<boothtype> instead. covered=booth is not so appropriate for these, because this tag describes how a feature is covered, not the feature itself (which would be a public bookcase then). Former phone booths which are public bookcases now are the one exception where booth=* can be added without adding covered=booth before.

See also

• amenity=telephone
• man_made=telephone_box