Key:inscription

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. There is a limit of 255 characters for values.

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 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).

Related tags

• description=* - Additional information about an element, containing text not existent in real world.
• man_made=geoglyph
• Proposal:Epigraph, a proposal to map epigraphs (inscriptions) on their own (particularly useful to locate inscriptions on bigger objects and where there are several of them).

Possible tagging mistakes

memorial:text=*

More details at taginfo

• memorial:text=*

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