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man_made
Description
The man-made tag is for identifying man made structures.
Group: Man made
Used on these elements
Documented values: 93
See also
building=*
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Usage

A tag for identifying man-made (artificial) structures added to the landscape. See also building=* for buildings.

Values

Man Made

A tag for identifying man made (artificial) structures that are added to the landscape. See the page Man-made for an introduction on its usage.

Key	Value	Element	Comment	Rendering	Photo
man_made	adit		From Wikipedia: An adit is a type of entrance to an underground mine which is horizontal or nearly horizontal.
man_made	beacon		Structures for signalling on land and sea.
man_made	breakwater		Protects a shore or harbour from the sea and waves.
man_made	bridge		Indicates the outline of a bridge and groups together all features for that bridge. Combine with layer=*. Please also add bridge=* and layer=* to all ways running over the bridge.
man_made	bunker_silo		Open-sided structure to store something. It can be used with vehicles to fill and empty it.
man_made	campanile		A freestanding bell tower, typically near a church. See also man_made=tower with tower:type=bell_tower.		100px
man_made	chimney		Large chimney for exhaustion. For attached mobile phone base stations see the communication:mobile_phone=yes.
man_made	communications_tower		Huge tower for transmitting radio applications
man_made	crane		A stationary, permanent crane, such as those at docks
man_made	cross		Cross with little historical or religion value, e.g. summit cross.
man_made	cutline		Used to mark cut lines in forests.
man_made	clearcut		Area, where most or all trees are uniformly cut down. Used in combination with natural=scrub.
man_made	dovecote		A place where doves are farmed or stored.
man_made	embankment		A raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area.
man_made	dyke		A dyke is a an embankment built to restrict the flow of water or other liquids.
man_made	flagpole		A long pole built to hold a flag.
man_made	gasometer		A gasometer is a large storage container for gas.
man_made	groyne		A rigid hydraulic structure perpendicular to a coastline or a riverbank intended to interrupt longshore sediment transport. See also: man_made=breakwater.
man_made	kiln		A thermally insulated chamber in which temperature is controlled in order to change the state of the item placed inside, usually though the process of burning, baking, drying or smelting.
man_made	lighthouse		Sends out a light beam to guide ships.
man_made	mast		Mast is a vertical structure built to hold for example antennas.
man_made	mineshaft		A vertical tunnel.
man_made	monitoring_station		A station that monitor something.
man_made	obelisk		Obelisk
man_made	observatory		Observatory
man_made	offshore_platform		Offshore platform.
man_made	petroleum_well		A boring through the earth's surface that is designed to find and produce petroleum oil.
man_made	pier		A "bridge into the ocean", usually for recreation.
man_made	pipeline		A pipe for carrying various fluids, such as water, gas, sewage.
man_made	pumping_station		Pumping station
man_made	reservoir_covered		A covered water reservoir.
man_made	silo		A silo is a storage container for bulk material, often grains such as corn or wheat.
man_made	snow_fence		A snow fence is a solid fence-like structure built across steep slopes to reduce risk and severity of (snow) avalanches. Usually made of steel, sloping outwards, and trussed underneath. Sometimes refered to as a snow shed.
man_made	snow_net		A snow net netting fence built across steep slopes to reduce risk and severity of (snow) avalanches. They consist of a net made of steel cables, held up by posts. Sometimes refered to as an Avalanche net.
man_made	storage_tank		A tank used for storage of liquids or gases.
man_made	street_cabinet		All kind of cabinets hosting equipment to operate different sorts of facilities. They can be encountered not only in the street but everywhere
man_made	surveillance		To mark places and buildings monitored by public or private camera.
man_made	survey_point		Triangulation pillars, geodetic vertices, and fixed equipment used by topographers (e.g. DGPS radio stations).
man_made	telescope		Telescope
man_made	tower		A tall and often lean building or structure e.g. telecoms. Please also add a tower:type=* if possible. Also see historic=* below.
man_made	wastewater_plant		Facilities used to treat wastewater (known as sewage in some countries).
man_made	watermill		traditional Watermill, mostly ancient and out of order.
man_made	water_tower		A tower to store water in, usually found on hills beside or in a town.
man_made	water_well		A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers.
man_made	water_tap		A water tap is a man-made construction providing access to water and (usually) equipped with a valve.
man_made	water_works		A place where drinking water is found and applied to the local waterpipes network.
man_made	wildlife_crossing		Wildlife crossing
man_made	windmill		Windmill, mostly ancient and out of order, see power=generator in combination with generator:source=wind for modern wind turbines.
man_made	works		Industrial production plant aka factory.
man_made	yes		General tag for man-made (artificial) structures.
man_made	user defined		All commonly used values according to Taginfo

This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.

Possible Tagging Mistakes

• man_made=launch_pad

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See

• military=launchpad
• aeroway=launchpad

Proposals

• See man_made=cellar_entrance
• See man_made=tell
• See man_made=guy_wire