Tag:man_made=silo

man_made = silo
Description
A storage container for bulk material, often grains such as corn or wheat
Rendering in openstreetmap-carto
Group: Man made
Used on these elements
Useful combination
height=* content=*
See also
man_made=storage_tank
Wikidata
Q213643
Status: de facto
Tools for this tag
taginfo · CH · CZ · FR · GB · HU · IE · IN · JP · PL overpass-turbo

A silo is a storage container for bulk material, often grains such as corn or wheat. The most commonly noticed form is one or more connected round towers. Silos are landmarks which lend themselves to navigating. Most silos are easy to discern from other structures by the layperson.

How to map

Set a node at the center of the feature or draw an area along its outline. Add the tag man_made=silo and name=*.

Tags to use in combination

• height=* (in meters)
• building:material=*
• content=*
  • content=silage
  • content=salt
  • content=grit
  • content=crop
    • crop=* (for example, corn, wheat, barley, etc)
• operator=*
• (building=silo) if applicable. At this moment about half of silos are tagged also as a building.

See also

• man_made=storage_tank
• man_made=bunker_silo
• OSM Carto issue #2909

Possible Tagging Mistakes

• man_made=silos

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• man_made=storage

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