Tag:cemetery=grave
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A place dug into the ground for the burial of a corpse, often marked with a gravestone. 
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A grave is a place dug into the ground for the burial of a corpse, often marked with a gravestone. In areas where grave location/inscription is considered private information[1], please map only significant or notable graves and/or don't add the inscriptions.
How to map
Place a node 
in the middle of the grave or map the outline 
of the grave.
Tags used in combination
name=*- adding the name of the deceased in thename=*tag is common practiceinscription=*- text written on the grave or its headstonewikipedia=*,wikidata=*– Wikipedia article or Wikidata item about the grave itself (NOT the person buried inside)subject=*- name of the deceased person(s) buried heresubject:wikidata=*orburied:wikidata=*– Wikidata item about the buried person(s) - both are in use. Note that there can be a case where grave of someone is former or symbolic andburied:wikidata=*does not apply.
description=*- additional details about the grave itself
See also
historic=tomb- for historical tombs, e.g., barrows, pyramids, rock tombs. While a grave is a place dug into the ground for the burial of a corpse, a tomb is a built structure.landuse=cemetery- Limitations on mapping private information (graves were once listed as example as non-mappable, then clarified as allowed and removed from the list after discussion on talk page)
- Talk page - there are some objections that the practice of using
name=*to map the name of the buried person violates the rule Name is the name only and that this tag should be used only for the name of the grave itself (NOT the person buried here). The matter is still unresolved. - Relation:person - another method used to map who is buried in a grave is adding the grave as member to a
type=personrelation with role "tomb" (Proposal is currently abandoned)
Tags popular in Poland
These tags were originally created and used over the last few years in Poland.
With:
Example
Click "Load graves from area":
Maps
- Open Burial Map: Displays graves and details about buried people based on
buried=*,subject:wikidata=*,buried:wikidata=*andtype=personrelations. It's also possible to change source to combine this data with the data from Wikidata. - OpenStreetMap Grave Finder (GitHub)
Possible synonyms
See also
References
- ↑ Situation varies across world, see for example how GDPR regulation may or may not apply to information about dead people
- ↑ According to taginfo, as of March 2025, 93.86% of these relations are in Poland.