Key:excavation

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Description
A key that further describes the type of excavation. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: man made
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
Status: in usePage for proposal

excavation=* is used to describe the type of man-made holes (man_made=excavation) in the ground. The most common usage is the tagging of qanat shafts (excavation=qanat_shaft).

The key is introduced with Proposed features/Qanat.

See also