Key:description
 description
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To provide additional information about the related element to the end map user. 
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Status: approved
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The description=* tag can be used to provide additional information about the related element to the end map user, possibly using a pop-up or similar. Text should be kept short; a few words or perhaps one to three sentences at most. Longer information can be provided by tagging a link to Wikipedia or other external website using wikipedia=*, wikidata=*, url=* or website=*.
Use note=* for information which is for use by other mappers (for example a note indicating that the aerial imagery should not be believed or similar).
Never use description=* to add advertising messages. Such spam can and should be removed as soon as spotted.
Usage
- description=* (local language)
- description:en=* (en= English)
Examples
historic=monument
name=First Fleet Monument
description=This is where the first colonial settlement fleet to Australia landed in 1741.
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highway=footway
description=Muddy in wet weather
bicycle:description=Ridable along most of the way but has sections with tree roots
Related tags
- mtb:description=* - mountain bike relevant description
- bicycle:description=*
- whitewater:description=* similar for whitewater
- DisabilityDescription
- wheelchair:description:en=* (or the language code that corresponds to the language the tag's value is in)
- deaf:description:en=*
- blind:description:en=*
- inscription=* - for the text of inscriptions on objects
- note=* - for adding notes to yourself and your fellow mappers
- website=* - for providing a link to a general external website
- wikipedia=* - for providing a wikipedia.org link
- localwiki=* - for providing a localwiki.org link
See also
- Proposed features/Description
- more description: type tags : https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=description:#keys