Tag:amenity=grit_bin
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A container that holds sand, salt and gravel to spread on roads for winter safety. ![]() |
Group: amenities |
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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
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Additional the features can be mapped:
content=sand/salt/...
- Content of the bincolour=green/brown/yellow/...
- Colour of the binmaterial=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 (alsoaccess=public
is/was used, however it is a undocumented duplicate ofaccess=yes
)Although this definition was included in the proposal for this tag and has occasionally been used, it conflicts with the normal definition ofaccess=permissive
- only a selected group is free to use; i.e. residents, local authoritiesaccess=permissive
and may cause confusionaccess=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
Images
colour=yellow
, material=plastic
)Rendering
- iD-editor:
See also
content=grit
- A silo with content of grit- original proposal
- Grit bin on Wikipedia