Key:natural
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 natural |
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| Description: For natural landmarks and features. |
| Group: Natural |
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Summary
This key is used to describe natural features, mostly in terms of habitats and geological features.
Core values
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Rendering | Photo |
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| natural | spring | 
| A place where ground water flows naturally from the ground ((hydrology, land) (3596) Other languages) | ||
| natural | peak |
| top of a hill or mountain (summit) |  |  |
| natural | glacier | 
| Areas (or peaks) covered with ice throughout the year |  | |
| natural | volcano |
| A volcano, either dormant, extinct or active | ||
| natural | cliff | 
| Rock face | ||
| natural | scree |
| Loose rock | ||
| natural | scrub |
| Uncultivated land covered with bushes or stunted trees |  | |
| natural | fell |
| Bare upper lying uncultivated land principally covered with grass and often grazed. | ||
| natural | heath |
| Bare lower lying uncultivated land with bushes but little or no tree cover. |  | |
| natural | wood |
| Natural woodland (trees). See also landuse=forest. |  | |
| natural | marsh |
| waterlogged area (on Wikipedia) | ||
| natural | water |
| Lakes, etc. |  | |
| natural | coastline |
| The coastline should run clockwise around water and anti-clockwise around land, i.e. land on the left side and water on the right side of the way (that is, according to the sequence of nodes in the way), for it to show correctly. As the sole exception coastlines do not have to form closed ways, they merely have to connect up (head to tail) to form complete closed polygons. |  | |
| natural | mud |
| (Other languages) | ||
| natural | beach |
| Beach: sand, gravel or pebble (Other languages) |  | 
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| natural | bay |
| Bay (Other languages) | ||
| natural | land |
| Land that exists within another area, such as a lake. (i.e an island). Keep water on the right and land on the left side in relation to sequence of nodes in the Way. Layering may also be required. See Relations/Multipolygon for islands in lakes |  | |
| natural | cave_entrance |
| The entrance to a cave. | ||
| natural | User Defined |
| See Tagwatch site for some other common used values as well |
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
