Tag:tourism=viewpoint
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 tourism = viewpoint
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A place worth visiting, often high, with a good view of surrounding countryside or notable buildings. 
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A place where tourists, visitors, hikers might like to visit and take photographs. A place, often high, with a good view of surrounding countryside or notable buildings. Sometimes called a vista point or scenic area/point, lookout or overlook.
Some are identified by signs, many more can be identified from local knowledge or from your own visit and judgement.
This tag identifies a good view. Interesting objects or buildings themselves should rather be tagged with an appropriate value of tourism=*.
How to map
Set a node 
at the viewpoint and add tourism=viewpoint.
Direction of view
The direction of the view may be described by the direction=* tag, either by giving the main direction or the left and right limits (in this order).
| direction=W | View roughly to the west |
| direction=S-W | View from the south to the west |
| direction=330-30 | Viewing angle of 60 degrees around the north |
| direction=70-110;250-290 | Limited view to the east and west, no view to the north and south |
| direction=0-360 | Panorama view |
A map with showing the direction=*-Tag.
Examples
tourism=viewpoint name=Beachy Head direction=90-260 description=Views of the English Channel, France can be seen on a clear day
tourism=viewpoint man_made=tower tower:type=observation name=Panorama Tower
tourism=viewpoint natural=peak ele=1489 name=Gęsia Szyja
Rendering
- On the OpenStreetMap standard layer as a viewpoint icon with name if set.
- On OpenTopoMap as a viewpoint icon with correct direction(s).
- On osmtools for debugging the direction value.
See also
- information=map + map_type=toposcope (board indicating the direction to notable landscape features which can be seen from that point)
- amenity=binoculars (pair of binoculars fixed in place on a pole)
- Overlook on Wikipedia