Key:natural
| natural |
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| Used to describe natural physical land features, including ones that have been modified or created by humans. |
| Group: Natural |
| Used on these elements |
| Documented values: 88 |
| Status: de facto |
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The natural key is used to describe a wide variety of physical geography, geological and landcover features, including ones that have been modified or created by humans.
Values
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Tag Usage[1] | Carto rendering |
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Vegetation | ||||||
| natural | fell | Habitat above the tree line covered with grass, dwarf shrubs and mosses. | No, see #545. | |||
| natural | grassland | Areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae) and other herbaceous (non-woody) plants. For mown/managed grass see landuse=grass, for hay/pasture see landuse=meadow. | ||||
| natural | heath | A dwarf-shrub habitat, characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, often dominated by plants of the Ericaceae. Note. This is not for parks whose name contains the word "heath". |
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| natural | moor | Don't use, see wikipage. Upland areas, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils. | currently not rendered by openstreetmap-carto | |||
| natural | scrub | Uncultivated land covered with shrubs, bushes or stunted trees. | ||||
| natural | shrubbery | An area of shrubbery that is actively maintained or pruned by humans. A slightly wilder look is also possible | currently not rendered by openstreetmap-carto | |||
| natural | tree | A single tree. | ||||
| natural | tree_row | A line of trees. | ||||
| natural | tree_stump | A tree stump, the remains of a cut down or broken tree. | ||||
| natural | tundra | Habitat above tree line in alpine and subpolar regions, principally covered with uncultivated grass, low growing shrubs and mosses and sometimes grazed. | ||||
| natural | wood | Tree-covered area (a 'forest' or 'wood'). Also see landuse=forest. For more detail, one can use leaf_type=* and leaf_cycle=*. | ||||
Water related | ||||||
| natural | bay | An area of water mostly surrounded by land but with a level connection to the ocean or a lake. | ||||
| natural | beach | landform along a body of water which consists of sand, shingle or other loose material | ||||
| natural | blowhole | An opening to a sea cave which has grown landwards resulting in blasts of water from the opening due to the wave action | ||||
| natural | cape | A piece of elevated land sticking out into the sea or large lake. Includes capes, heads, headlands and (water) promontories. | ||||
| natural | coastline | The mean high water springs line between the sea and land (with the water on the right side of the way.) | ||||
| natural | crevasse | A large crack in a glacier | ||||
| natural | geyser | A spring characterized by intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam. | ||||
| natural | glacier | A permanent body of ice formed naturally from snow that is moving under its own weight. | ||||
| natural | hot_spring | A spring of geothermally heated groundwater | ||||
| natural | isthmus | A narrow strip of land, bordered by water on both sides and connecting two larger land masses. | ||||
| natural | mud | Area covered with mud: water saturated fine grained soil without significant plant growth. Also see natural=wetland + wetland=*. | ||||
| natural | peninsula | A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass, nearly surrounded by water | ||||
| natural | reef | A feature (rock, sandbar, coral, etc) lying beneath the surface of the water | ||||
| natural | shingle | An accumulation of rounded rock fragments on a beach or riverbed | ||||
| natural | shoal | An area of the sea floor near the sea surface (literally, becomes shallow) and exposed at low tide. See natural=sand as well. | ||||
| natural | spring | A place where ground water flows naturally from the ground (Other languages). | ||||
| natural | strait | A narrow area of water surrounded by land on two sides and by water on two other sides. | ||||
| natural | water | Any body of water, from natural such as a lake or pond to artificial like moat or canal. Also see waterway=riverbank | ||||
| natural | wetland | A natural area subject to inundation or with waterlogged ground, further specified with wetland=* | ||||
Geology related | ||||||
| natural | arch | A rock arch naturally formed by erosion, with an opening underneath. | currently not rendered by openstreetmap-carto | |||
| natural | arete | An arête, a thin, almost knife-like, ridge of rock which is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys. | ||||
| natural | bare_rock | An area with sparse/no soil or vegetation, so that the bedrock becomes visible. | ||||
| natural | cave_entrance | The entrance to a cave: a natural underground space large enough for a human to enter. | ||||
| natural | cliff | A vertical or almost vertical natural drop in terrain, usually with a bare rock surface (leave the lower face to the right of the way). | ||||
| natural | dune | A hill of sand formed by wind, covered with no or very little vegetation. See also natural=sand and natural=beach | currently not rendered by openstreetmap-carto | |||
| natural | earth_bank | Large erosion gully or steep earth bank | ||||
| natural | fumarole | A fumarole is an opening in a planet's crust, which emits steam and gases | ||||
| natural | gully | Small scale cut in relief created by water erosion | ||||
| natural | hill | A hill. | currently not rendered by openstreetmap-carto | |||
| natural | peak | The top (summit) of a hill or mountain. | ||||
| natural | ridge | A mountain or hill linear landform with a continuous elevated crest | ||||
| natural | rock | A notable rock or group of rocks attached to the underlying bedrock. | currently not rendered by openstreetmap-carto | |||
| natural | saddle | The lowest point along a ridge or between two mountain tops | ||||
| natural | sand | An area covered by sand with no or very little vegetation. See natural=beach and natural=dune as well. | ||||
| natural | scree | Unconsolidated angular rocks formed by rockfall and weathering from adjacent rockfaces. | ||||
| natural | sinkhole | A natural depression or hole in the surface topography. | currently not rendered by openstreetmap-carto | |||
| natural | stone | A single notable freestanding rock, which may differ from the composition of the terrain it lies in.; e.g., glacial erratic. | currently not rendered by openstreetmap-carto | |||
| natural | valley | A natural depression flanked by ridges or ranges of mountains or hills | currently not rendered by openstreetmap-carto | |||
| natural | volcano | An opening exposed on the earth's surface where volcanic material is emitted. | ||||
| natural | user defined | All commonly used values according to Taginfo | ||||
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
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See also
- Landcover
- Land use and areas of natural land
- Conservation
- Geological
- Category:Key descriptions for group "natural"
- Category:Tag descriptions for group "natural"
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