Tag:man_made=embankment
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An embankment.
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Note
As is clear from the Taginfo statistics shown to the right, it is much more common to use embankment=yes than man_made=embankment. This page has been created to document the tag, but also to draw attention to the alternative and more popular method of tagging such a feature.
Description
In transportation an embankment is a raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area. If this low-lying area is permanently or tidally flooded, then the raised bank is called a causeway.
It can also be an artificial bank raised above the immediately-surrounding land to redirect or prevent flooding by a river, lake or sea. See also: Proposed_features/Dyke (sic).
Usage
Add man_made=embankment to a way with the left-hand side of the way being the high side and the right-hand side being the low side.
When micro-mapping, and if appropriate, you can also draw two parallel ways in opposite directions and add man_made=embankment to both.
- To represent a raised finger of land (as in the illustration): draw two ways bordering the raised land, each tagged man_made=embankment and going in opposite directions.
- To present a banked enclosure (such as an iron-age hill fort): draw two ways with the outer way travelling anticlockwise and the inner way clockwise. Additional ways can be used to present ditches, scarps, aprons and terraces in large sites.
