Tag:landuse=reservoir

Man made body of stored water. May be covered or uncovered.

There is considerable confusion whether landuse=reservoir is deprecated.

For this reason it may be a good idea to tag the actual water body with natural=water + water=reservoir in addition or instead of landuse=reservoir. See also the approved water details proposal and pointers to discussion on talk page.

Currently most renderers will interpret and draw landuse=reservoir as a visible open water area.

How to tag

Begin by placing a node or a closed way on the map, and tagging it with

Tag	Description
landuse=reservoir	A man-made body of stored water.

It sometimes makes sense to add the following tags:

Tag	Description
name=*	The name of the reservoir, if known.
covered=yes/no	Whether the reservoir is covered, typically buried underground.
natural=water + water=reservoir	Can be added if the reservoir is also a body of open water. See also #Status

Rendering

Blue area.

Osmarender has different rendering rules using the key reservoir_type=*:

• reservoir_type=evaporator
• reservoir_type=cooling
• reservoir_type=sewage
• reservoir_type=tailings
• reservoir_type=water_storage

Proposals

• approved and active: water details proposal which obsoletes this tag
• in mail discussions the wish was formulated to create a tagging scheme covering areas and objects related to water reservoirs (a superset of the current definition). Although it might seem logical to use landuse=reservoir for such purpose this would conflict with the current widely used definitions and another tagging scheme should be proposed instead.

See also

• man_made=reservoir_covered
• landuse=basin
• landuse=pond
• natural=water
• water=*
• waterway=dam
• waterway=weir
• man_made=storage_tank

References

Related terms: ‹ reserve › ‹ reservoir ›