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+/- man_made Description The man-made tag is for identifying man made structures. Group Man made Element help Tools for this tag Combinations worldwide in Australia/Oceania in Europe (list) in Asia (list) in Central America (list) in South America (list) in Africa (list)  (via overpass turbo - help)

Usage

See also: Man-made

A tag for identifying man-made (artificial) structures added to the landscape. See also building=* for buildings.

Values

Key	Value	Element	Comment	Rendering	Photo
man_made	adit		From Wikipedia: An adit is a type of entrance to an underground mine which is horizontal or nearly horizontal
man_made	beacon		Structures for signalling on land and sea.
man_made	breakwater		Protects a shore or harbour from the sea and waves
man_made	cereal_bank		Cereal banks for storing grain. For the first time used in Chad as part of the EUROSHA project
man_made	chimney		Large chimney for exhaustion. For attached mobile phone base stations see communication:mobile_phone=yes
man_made	crane		A stationary, permanent crane, such as those at docks
man_made	cutline		Used to mark cut lines in forests.
man_made	embankment		A raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area.
man_made	firepit		deprecated. For campfires and firepits, see leisure=firepit
man_made	flagpole		A long pole built to hold a flag
man_made	groyne		A rigid hydraulic structure perpendicular to a coastline or a riverbank intended to interrupt longshore sediment transport. See also: man_made=breakwater
man_made	kiln		A thermally insulated chamber in which temperature is controlled in order to change the state of the item placed inside, usually though the process of burning, baking, drying or smelting.
man_made	lighthouse		Sends out a light beam to guide ships
man_made	mineshaft		A vertical tunnel
man_made	monitoring_station		A station that monitor something
man_made	petroleum_well		A boring through the earth's surface that is designed to find and produce petroleum oil
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	reservoir_covered		A covered water reservoir
man_made	snow_fence		A snow fence is a solid fence-like structure built across steep slopes to reduce risk and severity of (snow) avalanches. Usually made of steel, sloping outwards, and trussed underneath. Sometimes refered to as a snow shed.
man_made	snow_net		A snow net netting fence built across steep slopes to reduce risk and severity of (snow) avalanches. They consist of a net made of steel cables, held up by posts. Sometimes refered to as an Avalanche net.
man_made	storage_tank		A tank used for storage of liquids or gases.
man_made	surveillance		To mark places and buildings monitored by public or private camera
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. Please also add a tower:type=* if possible. Also see historic=* below.
man_made	wastewater_plant		Facilities used to treat wastewater (known as sewage in some countries)
man_made	watermill		Watermill, mostly ancient and out of order
man_made	water_tower		A tower to store water in, usually found on hills beside or in a town
man_made	water_works		A place where drinking water is found and applied to the local waterpipes network.
man_made	water_well		A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers.
man_made	windmill		Windmill, mostly ancient and out of order, see power=generator in combination with generator:source=wind for modern wind turbines
man_made	works		Industrial building to produce something
building	yes		General tag for buildings - see building=* for more information.
man_made	user defined		All commonly used values to Taginfo

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