Key:obstacle
| obstacle |
| Description |
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| Objective obstacles in a path (or highways) that difficult the passability. |
| Group: Properties |
| Used on these elements |
| See also |
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| Status: in use |
| Tools for this tag |
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The goal of this tag is to mark obstacles which are not derived from the properties of the road (surface, material, width, etc.) but from its environment or local properties; similarly, marks places where a way (most often waterways) have environmental obstacles. This tag can be used in a navigation application to avoid areas or use parts of the road with lower priorities when calculate routes, similarly to bumps, ferries or non-free roads, but it can be used on paths for non-vehicles.
See also the more common key barrier=*, used to map barriers on roads and paths, including logs, blocks, debris and ditches.
Tagging
This key has been proposed, but the most frequently used values are not covered by the proposal. Please help document what these values mean and where they come from.
General use
| Value | Usage | Count | Meaning | Alternatives | Ways | Project | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vegetation | Movement on route is hard due to the vegetation (shubs, dense grass, nettle, lianas etc.), movement is significantly slowed down or you have to move carefully. | highway | General | ||||
| fallen_tree | There is a big fallen tree that completely hinders passability, and you only can continue the path if you cross the tree (cross it above or below). Lesser used alternative to barrier=log. | See #Fallen tree below. | highway | General | |||
| unevenness | To follow the trail you must use hands and it cannot be avoided. | see discussion | highway | General | |||
| precipice | There is an important precipice alongside the trail (at least one side) that your eyes can't avoid see if you look forward and you see the falling. There are a minimal risk of falling, but it's an important difficulty for people with dizziness. You can't move over away from the precipice and take out it of your visual field. | highway | General | ||||
| heap | There is a large heap of material (soil, rock pile, rubbish heap, etc.) making the movement difficult. | highway | General | ||||
| hole | There is a large hole or holes on the road making the movement difficult or dangerous by smaller vehicles. | highway | General | ||||
| yes | undefined (or "other") environmental factors make moving on the route difficult | use a more specific tag | highway | General |
OpenSeaMap use (obsolete)
| Value | Usage | Count | Meaning | Alternatives | Ways | Project | Image |
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| bridge | 2320 | (Old tagging scheme not used by OpenSeaMap) | ? | waterway | OpenSeaMap | ||
| lock | 695 | (Old tagging scheme not used by OpenSeaMap) | lock=*, waterway=lock_gate | waterway | OpenSeaMap | ||
| ? | (Old tagging scheme not used by OpenSeaMap) | barrier=* + access=no | |||||
| line | 476 | (Old tagging scheme not used by OpenSeaMap) | ? | waterway | OpenSeaMap | ||
| ferry | ? | 44 | (Old tagging scheme not used by OpenSeaMap) | route=ferry | waterway | OpenSeaMap | |
| drawbridge | 24 | (Old tagging scheme not used by OpenSeaMap) | bridge:movable=drawbridge | waterway | OpenSeaMap | ||
| tunnel | 24 | (Old tagging scheme not used by OpenSeaMap) | tunnel=* | waterway | OpenSeaMap |
Description
If you use the obstacle=* you can give more details about it by using
| Count | Key | Value |
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| obstacle_description=* | The short and precise description of the obstacle (eg. "nettle", "dug hole", "rubbish" [heap]) |
Related tags
- barrier=* - more common key for barriers including logs, ditches, debris, etc.
- highway=*
- surface=*
- smoothness=*
- width=*
- maxheight:physical=* (maxheight=* is the highest permitted vehicle height, and height=* is the height of an object!)
- trail_visibility=*
- sac_scale=*
- tracktype=*
Specific cases
The obstacles are most often points so you should use them on a way node. When an obstacle is larger than approximately 5 meters (this is usually the lower bound of GPS sensitivity) you may use it on a way or area, but this preferably should be avoided.
Fallen tree
Fallen trees are almost always nodes, unless it is a way continuously covered by large amounts of fallen trees (like a not cleaned narrow valley road). When a tree crosses multiple ways use multiple way nodes instead of a "tree way" line; if it's a tree which could be used as a way please use highway=path + surface=wood instead. Do not use this tagging on "fresh" or "temporary" fallen trees; if a tree is visibly there for years or you reasonably expect it to stay there for years to come then tag it, but try not to tag trees which will be cleaned up (or cut) soon.
Hole and heap
These are usually nodes. It is possible that a large hole or heap have a size beyond 5 meters and could be tagged on a way; avoid tagging it as an area because it would make it nearly impossible to use for navigational applications. (A 10 meter hole or heap technically make the road disappear and people usually expected to go around it, creating a new path without hole or heap.)
See also
- barrier=* - A barrier is a physical structure which blocks or impedes movement. This key is more common