Key:roof:material
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Outer material for the building roof. ![]() |
Group: buildings |
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Status: de facto |
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roof:material=* – the outermost material of the roof of a building or building part.
This information can be used to model 3D buildings.
Some 3D renderers set the colour of a building based on this tag[1].
Values
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roof_tiles | Roof covered with tiles, usually of ceramic origin (e.g. terracota). See ![]() |
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metal | ![]() |
Roof covered with metal, flat or waved (corrugated). Similar values: metal_sheet, tin, copper. See ![]() ![]() |
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concrete | ![]() ![]() |
Roof covered with exposed concrete. | |
tar_paper | ![]() |
Roof covered with tar paper. | |
asbestos | ![]() |
Roof covered with ![]() This is an inaccurate term, better to use eternit. The coverings are not built with asbestos itself, but with eternit, which is composed of 90% cement and 10% ![]() |
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eternit | ![]() |
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glass | ![]() ![]() |
Roof covered with glass. | |
acrylic_glass | ![]() |
Roof covered with ![]() |
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metal_sheet | ![]() ![]() |
metal sheet, flat or corrugated | |
slate | ![]() ![]() |
Roof covered with slate, a kind of thin stone plates. | |
tin | ![]() |
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grass | ![]() |
Roof covered with living grass (or similar plants), sealed below. See ![]() |
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copper | ![]() |
Copper-plated roof. When it comes in contact with air, it becomes covered with ![]() ![]() |
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thatch | Thatched roof made from dry grasses, sedges or reeds. | ||
gravel | ![]() |
Roof covered with gravel. | |
stone | ![]() |
Roof covered with stone. See also: slate |
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wood | ![]() |
Roof covered with wood. | |
plastic | ![]() |
Roof covered with plastic, corrugated or not. | |
asphalt | Roof covered with asphalt, but not tar_paper. See also tar_paper. Asphalt is the ingredient used to make tar paper. |
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asphalt_shingle | Roof covered with ![]() |
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zinc | ![]() |
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sandstone | ![]() |
sandstone | |
bamboo | ![]() |
Roof covered with bamboo, usually plaited. | |
palm_leaves | ![]() |
Roof covered with dry palm leaves. | |
banana_leaves | ![]() |
banana leaves | |
solar_panels | ![]() |
Roof fully covered with solar panels.
Rooftop solar panels are more commonly mapped as a generator with location=roof, see Tag:generator:source=solar#Rooftop Solar Panels. If the roof is only mostly covered with solar panels (some other material is still visible underneath), use that other material as roof:material=* and map the panels as a generator. |
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titanium | ![]() |
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user defined | See Taginfo for all common values. | ||
In some cases values from building:material=* can be also used, because roof:material is used also with building parts. |
Rendering examples
roof:material=roof_tiles on OSM2World
See also
- building:material=* – building material
- material=* – material
- roof:shape=* – roof shape
- roof:colour=* – roof colour
- Simple 3D buildings – overview of tags for mapping 3D buildings
- Wikipedia: List of commercially available roofing materials