Tag:landuse=basin
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 landuse = basin
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An area of land artificially graded to hold water. 
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Rendering in openstreetmap-carto 
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An area of land artificially graded to hold water. Note that this definition includes also structures typically without water. Usually these features are made for man made water courses e.g. storm water, water treatment.
It is treated as synonymous to natural=water in many renderings, including JOSM editor.
Tags
Applies to 
nodes and areas.
- landuse=basin
- basin=infiltration — An
infiltration basin catches storm water and allows it to seep into an aquifer. - basin=detention — A detention basin catches storm water and allows it to drain slowly into natural waterways.
- basin=retention — A retention basin catches storm water and retains it, forming an artificial pond.
- basin=evaporation — A evaporation pond or evaporation basin used to evaporate water containing a dissolved substance (precipitate)
- basin=infiltration — An
Tags used in combination
- name=<name of the basin>
- basin=* refines the type of the basin
- intermittent=yes If the presence of water is intermittent.
Possible Tagging Mistakes
Do not use this tag for land form (natural) basins e.g. the Amazon Basin. There are no tags (yet, 2018) in OSM for mapping such features.
If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!
See also
- landuse=reservoir - a man made body of stored water, usually formed by a dam across a valley or natural depression
- landuse=salt_pond - A salt pond, salt evaporation pond or saltern
- natural=water + water=basin - synonym for landuse=basin
- water=pond - a small body of standing water, man-made in most cases