Tag:wall=brick

A brick wall wall=brick is a wall constructed from bricks, and in which mortar is used to bind adjoining bricks together. Typically offset rows of bricks, called courses, will lie on top of each other to form the wall. Modern bricks are uniform in size (for example 215 × 102.5 × 65 mm in the United Kingdom) and are smaller than blocks. Traditionally bricks were made from dried clay but may now be made via modern chemical processes.

How to tag

barrier=wall is the primary tag and wall=brick should be used to tag the type of wall as a brick wall.

How to map

Create a line along the length of the brick wall. Where a brick wall joins another brick wall use a shared node. If there are substantial gaps in the wall then end that line, leave a gap and create a new way for the next section. Mark a gate of stile in the wall by creating a node on the way at the appropriate location and tagging it with barrier=gate or barrier=stile or similar. For a short gap consider using a barrier=entrance node.

For other types of barriers that are not a brick wall (including hedges, ditches and fences) see barrier=*.

Alternative tagging

Mappers may alternatively chose to map a stone wall as barrier=wall, material=brick.

See also

• barrier=wall
• Brickwork on Wikipedia