Key:map_type
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 map_type
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Specifies the type of a map.  
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| Status: de facto |
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- map_type=* What type of map is it?
| key=value | Description | Example/photo |
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| map_type=topo | A map with topographical background for e.g. a historical or hiking map. The map contains contour lines. | |
| map_type=street | A map with all streets or ways of an area. The streets are mostly named. The angles, distances etc. are accurate. Used e.g. at tourist offices for the accommodation overview. | |
| map_type=scheme | A sketched map with only important ways and POIs. The angles, distances etc. are merely illustrative, not accurate. Used e.g. by travel agencies to explain their tours. | |
| map_type=toposcope | A marker erected on high places which indicates the direction to notable landscape features which can be seen from that point (associated with tourism=viewpoint). |  |
| map_type=* | All commonly used values according to Taginfo |