Key:inscription
 inscription
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Text which is written on an object. 
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| Group: annotations |
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| Status: de facto |
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The key inscription=* is used for the text of inscriptions on buildings, memorials, advertising signs, and other objects.
How to map
Inscription represents text physically found on the feature in the real world.
| or the spaced slash / may be used to represent 
line breaks and || or the spaced double slash // to paragraph breaks depending on the style guide preferred.
iD editor uses real new line character - U+000A (one byte) for line breaks and U+000A, U+000A (two bytes) for paragraph breaks, which might be preferred because real objects can contain the pipe | or slash /characters.
Limited length
As for all values, there is a limit of 255 characters for the value of inscription=*
Referencing other data services
To overcome the length limit, the inscription might be added to:
wikidata=*- If this feature has a Wikidata item, it can be described there using![[W]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Wikidata-logo.svg/24px-Wikidata-logo.svg.png)
inscription (Property:P1684), as the character limit is set at 1,500.openplaques:id=<ID number>- If it is a commemorative/historical plaque, you can also add the full inscription to openplaques.org and then link the entry with the OSM object.inscription:url=*- URL where the inscription can be found on an external website; e.g. Wikisource (useful when the inscription is longer than the above limit).
Splitting across multiple keys
Some mappers overcome the limit by splitting the value across multiple keys, e.g.
Related tags
description=*- Additional information about an element, containing text not existent in real world.man_made=geoglyphhistoric=epigraph, to map epigraphs (inscriptions) on their own (particularly useful to locate inscriptions on bigger objects and where there are several of them).