Sample areas
This page lists good examples of types of land usage mapped already in OpenStreetMap. Use these example areas as guides showing how to map particular types of feature. Additional tags are available at Map features and Proposed map features.
If you know an area which better demonstrates how to map one of these features, please add it to the page. Also, please remove any examples which have been surpassed in their mapping by other areas.
Residential areas
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Streets, parks, and house numbers. |
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Big road junctions
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Bridges, tunnels, and intersections |
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City centres
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High-rise buildings, underground shopping malls, pedestrian areas
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The countryside
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Horse, hiking, and bike trails, fields, farms and irrigation
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Wilderness
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Forests, lakes, hills, glaciers |
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Harbours and maritime navigation
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Lighthouses, buoys, jetties. |
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Airports
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Runways, terminals, taxiways, and heliports |
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Parks and leisure
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Zoos, theme parks, gardens, and water parks |
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Power networks
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Power stations, wind farms, transmission lines
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Waterways
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Canals, locks, docks, and aqueducts |
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Railroads
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Classification yards, railway stations, viaducts |
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Skiing areas
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Ski routes, lifts, and facilities |
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Long distance routes
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Cycle routes, long-distance hikes, international road numbers
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Caves and tunnels
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When not everything is on the same level
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Cliffs and climbing routes
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Vertical routes
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Public transport
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Bus routes, train times, park-and-ride
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Temporary
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Festivals, camps, expos, construction and demolition sites
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Ancient cultures
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Excavations, historic places in current times
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Borders and boundaries
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Borders and boundaries, disputed borders, historical borders, checkpoints and toll booths
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Barriers
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Barriers: city_wall, wall, retaining_wall, fence, hedge
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Languages
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Names in multiple languages, disputed names, scripts and difficult typography
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Campus
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Groups of buildings with a common purpose. University campuses, hospitals, research areas, large businesses.
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