Key:cutting

An excavated section where the highway or railway is significantly lower than ground level.

See also Cut on Wikipedia.

Usage

Add cutting=yes to a way that is already tagged with highway=*, railway=* or (artificial) waterway=*.

The tag cutting=yes usually means that the original ground level is higher on both sides of the highway, railway or waterway. It is also possible to use cutting=left or cutting=right if the cutting is only on one side of the feature. In this case, cutting=left means that the original ground level is higher on the left side of the way.

The value cutting=both has also been used instead of cutting=yes by some mappers, to make it explicit that the original ground level is higher on both sides of the highway. The value cutting=hollow_way has also been rarely used for a sunken lane (or, hollow way, or holloway): an old road or track that is lower than the land on either side, but historic=hollow_way is more common.

Photos

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  A railway cutting in Helsinki.
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  A railway cutting in France.
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  A historic (100 AD) road cutting in Terracina, Italy.

See also

• embankment=* - the opposite of a cutting
• tunnel=*
• man_made=embankment
• barrier=retaining_wall
• natural=cliff
• natural=earth_bank - earth bank is an abrupt change in ground level which can be clearly distinguished from its surroundings
• natural=gully - small scale cut in relief created by water erosion
• historic=hollow_way
• Proposed features/hollow_way
• Landform examples