Key:material
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Describes the main material of a physical feature. 
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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:
- building façade → building:material=*
- roof of a building → roof:material=*
- surface of roads → surface=* for values such as surface=asphalt or surface=mud
- For surface=sett / surface=unhewn_cobblestone and other similar you can add detailed material like material=concrete / material=granite - do not use surface=granite or surface=marble and similar as it blocks adding standard surface=* denoting their shape[1]
- For surface=paving_stones there is paving_stones:material=* tag
- what is inside, for example a storage tank → content=*.
Common values
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| material | wood |  Wood.
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| material | palm_leaves | Arecaceae.
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| material | bamboo | Bamboo.
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| material | metal | Unspecified metal. It is better to use a more accurate value if you know what metal it is. |
 
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| material | aluminium | Aluminium.
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| material | brass | Brass.
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| material | bronze | Bronze.
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| material | iron | Iron.
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| 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. | 
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| material | steel | Steel.
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| 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.
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| material | reinforced_concrete | Reinforced concrete.
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| material | concrete | Concrete.
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| material | dry_stone | Dry stone, stones laid without any mortar to bind them together.
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| material | rock | Rock. To avoid, prefer material=stone
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| material | stone | Stone. Use a more precise value if you know which stone it is (see the following lines). |
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| material | granite | Granite.
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| material | basalt | Basalt.
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| material | andesite | Andesite.
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| material | marble | Marble.
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| material | slate | Slate.
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| material | sand | Sand.
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| material | sandstone | Sandstone.
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| material | limestone | Limestone.
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| material | plaster | Plaster.
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| material | epoxy | Epoxy, a family of resins that may replace wood or concrete to mold or cast several industrial, urban or domestic appliances |
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| material | glass | Glass.
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| material | brick | Brick.
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| material | plastic | Plastic.
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| material | tyres | Tyres.
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| material | adobe | Adobe, mudbrick. Material made from earth and organic materials.
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| material | soil | Soil, earth. Often used in combination with man_made=embankment. |
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| material | rammed_earth | Rammed earth.
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| material | Masonry is not a material. Please use other values. | ||||
| material | user defined | All commonly used values according to Taginfo |
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