Key:building:material

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Münster, LVM -- 2017 -- 6351-7.jpg
Description
Outer material for the building façade. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: buildings
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Requires
Useful combination
See also
Status: de facto

The key building:material=* is used to describe the outer surface material of building walls, also know as the facade or façade.

This information can be used to model 3D buildings.
Some 3D renderers set the colour of a building based on this tag[1].

This tag should be used to determine what the external layer of building walls is made of or covered with, and not what the walls are made of.
For example: if the walls of a building are made of bricks, plastered and painted, then the appropriate tag would be building:material=plaster.

Values

Value Short description Example image Count
cement_block  Concrete masonry unit or cement blocks, concrete blocks, breeze blocks (UK), concrete hollow blocks (Philippines) Hormigón re-interpretado.jpg
brick bricks Arvika 10skift munkforband2 cropped.jpg
plaster building coated in plaster (or stucco) Plaster.png
wood wood Valley Forge cabin.jpg
concrete concrete Beobachtungstuerme in Fort St. Elmo.jpg
metal metal Metalfront.png
steel steel, non-decorative metal, often seen on industrial buildings or tanks Former Main Roads Migrant Camp in Narrogin, Western Australia (exterior).jpg
stone stones
Similar values: limestone, sandstone
Stoneront.png
glass glass Limestor in Dalkingen.jpg
Glassfront.png
mirror mirrored-glass Building material mirror.JPG
mud dried mud
Similar values: adobe, rammed_earth
Mud houses are commonly found in various regions of Afghanistan
Watch Your Head (9144058900).jpg
masonry Unspecified masonry - better use brick, cement_block
See also building:structure=*
tin tin
plastic plastic Donaldson Futuro 08-20-2012.jpg
Pplatefront.png
timber_framing timber framing
This tag is used to describe the structure, rather than the facade.
See also building:structure=*
Mill Street, Warwick.jpg
sandstone  sandstone
Similar values: limestone, stone
RusticSandstoneMasonry4895.jpg
clay clay

Similar values: loam, adobe
WMEE-exp2019-(113).jpg
reed reed Uros Indian woman at work on a reed island in the titicace lake in Peru.jpg
loam loam

Similar values: clay, adobe
000410 Lehmhütte in der Nähe von Baligród.JPG
marble marble The Taj Mahal is entirely clad in marble
copper copper
(see Copper in architecture on Wikipedia)
The Nordic Embassy in Berlin
slate slate Facade and roof are made of slate
vinyl plastic vinyl strips Vinyl siding.jpg
limestone limestone
Similar values: stone, sandstone
Kalkstein.4175.JPG
Paris, caserne Château-Landon 14.jpg
tiles generally ceramic tiles Covilha-CCBY.jpg
metal_plates metal plates
See also: metal
Platefront.png
bamboo bamboo
(see Bamboo construction on Wikipedia)
Konstruksi bambu.jpg
adobe indicates  adobe, aka cob, wichert, puddled clay, bousille, etc.

Similar values: clay, loam
Old Adobe House Summit Arizona 2014.jpg
rammed_earth indicates  rammed earth Arquitectura de tapial.JPG
solar_panels solar panels BAPV solar-facade.JPG
Drammen - Grønland - Energibygget på Union Brygge.jpg
tyres tyres Tyre building.jpg
user defined See Taginfo for all common values.

Rendering examples

See also

Possible tagging mistakes

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If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!
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Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

References