Tag:amenity=binoculars

A tower viewer (also known as a pair of binoculars, spyglass) is a small telescope fixed in place with a pole. It can typically be found on touristic locations, viewpoints, on top of panoramic towers or occasionally on a nature reserve (e.g. in a leisure=bird_hide). Despite the tagging as binoculars, there is no requirement to have two oculars to use this tag. A single ocular at the location also qualifies to use this tag.

Often, but not always, a coin is demanded as fee=*.

How to map

Add amenity=binoculars on a node.

Tags used in combination

• fee=* – to indicate that a small fee has to be paid
• charge=* – to indicate the exact amount of charge
• direction=* – to indicate the direction the spyglass looks to. Use a single number if the spyglass is fixed, or a range if the spyglass can move between two directions (e.g. 45-90 if the spyglass can move between northeast and east). Use 0-360 if the spyglass can rotate everywhere.

See also

• leisure=bird_hide – to indicate a spot where birds are observed - a few bird hides do have fixed binoculars in them
• tourism=viewpoint – to indicate a nice view closeby
• man_made=telescope which is a big device used to look to look to the stars, the sun, ...