Tag:natural=bare rock

An area of bare rock is sparsely vegetated or not vegetated at all, so that the solid bedrock becomes visible. Areas to tag could be:

• high altitude mountain areas where the rock lays bare, like summits, arêtes and rock faces, but not scree, shingle or moraines.
• rocky coasts
• rocky areas in uplands, desert and polar regions
• outcrops like open pit mines or road cuts
• monolithic mountains like Uluru (Ayers Rock).

How to map

To map an area of bare rock you can just draw a line closing on itself, marking the area as bare rock. To map larger or more complex areas you can use relation:multipolygon with the same tag.

It can be mapped as a node (if there is no way to map it as a geometry), especially when someone wants to map name or some other additional properties. But mapping as an area is strictly preferable.

Examples

Rendering

See also

• natural=cliff - steep natural drop in terrain topography
• natural=scree - loose angular rock fragments formed by rockfall and weathering from adjacent rock faces
• natural=shingle - rounded rock fragments on a beach or riverbed, deposited and shaped by movement of water
• natural=stone - large boulders (glacial erratics or rock fall) not attached to the bedrock, mainly single node element
• natural=rock - isolated, notable rock features connected to the bedrock, mainly single node element
• natural=glacier - glacier areas

Possible tagging mistakes