Key:man made
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 man_made |
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| Description: The man_made tag is for identifying man made structures. |
| Group: Man made |
| Element: help
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| Tagwatch: help |
Summary
A tag for identifying man made (artificial) structures and buildings added to the landscape.
See Also
Building tag. This is newer than the man-made tag and overlaps functionality.
Core values
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Rendering | Photo |
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| man_made | works | 
| Industrial building to produce something | ||
| man_made | beacon |
| Help guide navigators to their destinations | ||
| man_made | survey_point |
| Triangulation pillars, geodetic vertices, and fixed equipment used by topographers (e.g. DGPS radio stations) | ||
| man_made | tower |
| A tall and often lean building or structure e.g. telecoms. Also see "Historic" below. | ||
| man_made | water_tower |
| A tower to store water in, usually found on hills beside or in a town | ||
| man_made | gasometer |
| Gasometer in Wikipedia | 
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| man_made | reservoir_covered | 
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| man_made | lighthouse |
| Sends out a light beam to guide ships | 
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| man_made | windmill |
| Windmill, mostly ancient and out of order, see power=generator in combination with power_source=wind for modern wind turbines |  |  |
| man_made | watermill |
| Watermill, mostly ancient and out of order | ||
| man_made | pier | 
| A "bridge into the ocean", usually for recreation |  | |
| man_made | pipeline |
| A pipe for carrying various fluids, such as water, gas, sewage | ||
| man_made | wastewater_plant |
| Facilities used to treat wastewater (known as sewage in some countries) | ||
| man_made | crane |
| a stationary, permanent crane, such as those at docks | ||
| man_made | User Defined |
| see Tagwatch site for some other common used values as well | ||
| building | yes |
| General tag for buildings |  | |
| building | User Defined |
| see Tagwatch site for some other common used values as well |
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