Tag:landuse=basin

landuse=basin
Description
An area of land artificially graded to hold water. 
Rendering in OSM Carto
Group: Landuse
Used on these elements
Useful combination
See also
Status: de facto

An area of land artificially graded to hold water. Note that this definition includes also structures typically without water. Usually these features are made for man made water courses e.g. storm water, water treatment.

It is treated as synonymous to natural=water in many renderings, including JOSM editor.

How to tag

Applies to nodes and areas.

Tags used in combination

  • name=<name of the basin>
  • basin=* - refines the type of the basin
  • intermittent=yes - If the presence of water is intermittent.

Rendering

Possible tagging mistakes

Do not use this tag for land form (natural) basins e.g. the Amazon Basin. There are no tags (yet, 2018) in OSM for mapping such features.

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

See also

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