Key:material

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Stapel bakstenen - Pile of bricks 2005 Fruggo.jpg
Description
Describes the main material of a physical feature. Show/edit corresponding data item.
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material=* – describes the main material of a physical feature.

It is most commonly used to describe the material of monuments, memorials, statues, walls, fences, but can be used for any other physical object except those listed below, which use other tags:

Common values

Key Value Description Tag Usage[2] Photo
material wood  Wood. Snohomish, WA - log pavilion 03.jpg
material palm_leaves  Arecaceae.
material bamboo  Bamboo. Construction maison bambou.jpg
material metal Unspecified  metal.
It is better to use a more accurate value if you know what metal it is.
Galvanized metal wall.jpg
Chain-link-Fence.jpg
material aluminium  Aluminium. Skulptur i aluminium vid Blackebergs centrum.JPG
material brass  Brass. Astoria, OR, Prop 9-1-13 (10004012325).jpg
material bronze  Bronze. Pomnik Anonimowego Przechodnia.JPG
material iron  Iron. County Hall, wrought iron gate, 2017 Nyíregyháza.jpg
Storgatan 14 wrought iron fence Goteborg.jpg
PikiWiki Israel 9971 iron sculpture garden in ganei-tikva.jpg
material metal_grid Metal grid (depending on the model also called wire mesh or wire grid, comparable is also perforated metal) is a specific type of material=metal. It is often used for seats and backrests of benches, sometimes also for outdoor tables. Bench metal grid.jpg
material steel  Steel. HK Central Murray Road Hutchison House entrance stairs stainless steel fences Nov-2012.jpg
Stainless Steel Railings and the Pier, Teignmouth - geograph.org.uk - 646827.jpg
Bollards in Haringey London England 2.jpg
material weathering_steel  Weathering steel, sometimes called COR-TEN steel, are steel alloys that obtain a distinctive stable rust-like exterior when exposed to the weather. Typically used as building cladding and in abstract sculptures. Stadtarchiv Essen.jpg
material reinforced_concrete  Reinforced concrete. BarreiraNewJersey.JPG
material concrete  Concrete. Concrete barrier at Nørre Vorupør.jpg
Concrete fence.jpg
material dry_stone  Dry stone, stones laid without any mortar to bind them together. Dry stone globe.jpg
material rock  Rock. To avoid, prefer material=stone PTK Monument Poznan.JPG
material stone  Stone.
Use a more precise value if you know which stone it is (see the following lines).
Bumthang - Mauer aus Rundsteinen.JPG
material granite  Granite. 'Zonnetafel - Valthe.jpg
Marktplatz, aurich.jpg
material basalt  Basalt. Базальтове.jpg
material andesite  Andesite. Zenepavilon, a Család szobor és a Faluház, 2019 Erdőkertes.jpg
Bolivia-72 - Back view - Gate of the Sun (2217309605).jpg
material marble  Marble. White marble fence @ Temple of Heaven in Beijing - panoramio.jpg
Detail of carved marble column base - Maharani Ki Chhatri, Jaipur (4609882817).jpg
material slate  Slate. Slate garden wall Blackwell House - geograph.org.uk - 930728.jpg
material sand  Sand. Sand Sculpture Taiwan 2011.jpg
material sandstone  Sandstone. Abdeckstein.jpg
The sandstone gate of Galgotias University..JPG
Typical local red sandstone wall - geograph.org.uk - 228300.jpg
material limestone  Limestone. Jerusalem Western Wall stones.jpg
Swabian memorial stone. Ship and rail. - Nagytétény, Budapest.JPG
material plaster  Plaster. Sculpture, plaster (AM 53811-1).jpg
material epoxy  Epoxy,
a family of resins that may replace wood or concrete to mold or cast several industrial, urban or domestic appliances
material glass  Glass. HK IFC Roof Podium Garden Glass Sculpture purple tile mosaics.JPG
Cove Fort County Cork Titanic Memorial Garden Main Glass Memorial.JPG
material brick  Brick. Old Brick Wall - geograph.org.uk - 1459733.jpg
Shrine near Chabahil stupa.jpg
material plastic  Plastic. HK West Kln Austin Road West Sidewalk n Traffic Control 1.JPG
JiminyPicketVinylFence.jpg
material tyres  Tyres. Tyre building.jpg
material adobe  Adobe, mudbrick. Material made from earth and organic materials. Milyanfan-adobe-bricks-8038.jpg
material soil  Soil, earth.
Often used in combination with man_made=embankment.
Stagnogley.JPG
material rammed_earth  Rammed earth. Paderne Morrish Castle 26 Nov 2007 (6).JPG
material masonry Masonry is not a material. Please use other values.
material user defined All commonly used values according to Taginfo

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