Tag:amenity=grit_bin
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 amenity = grit_bin
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A container that holds sand, salt and gravel to spread on roads for winter safety 
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Status: approved
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Grit bins, salt bins or sand bins are located in countries where freezing temperaters and snowfall occurs - they are mainly in hilly areas. They hold grit (sand and fine gravel), salt, or a mixture of salt and grit for people to spread on nearby roads. The grit helps improve winter road safety.
How to Map
Just place a node at right place. Tag it as amenity=grit_bin.
Additional the features can be mapped:
- content=sand/salt/... Content of the bin
- colour=green/brown/yellow/... Colour of the bin
- material=plastic/wood/metal/... Material of the bin
In some countries and/or towns the access to the content of the grit bin may be restricted. So an additional access=* may be necessary. The access may be one of:
- access=*
- access=yes everyone is free to use the grit / salt (also access=public is/was used, however it is a undocumented duplicate of access=yes)
access=permissive only a selected group is free to use; i.e. residents, local authoritiesAlthough this definition was included in the proposal for this tag and has occasionally been used, it conflicts with the normal definition of access=permissive and may cause confusion- access=private the bin is owned by i.e. a company or a school
- seasonal=yes if grit bin is present at given location only for part of the year, seasonal=winter can be used and from context it would be indicating that it is present only during winter
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