Symbols Single symbols denote several kinds of points of interest or describe a larger area. If the map feature in question has a name, it is written below the symbol most of the time, in the …

Map Icons (a.k.a. symbols or pictograms) are commonly used as a cartographic technique to represent different map features. Often icons are used to represent different POI types in more …

OpenStreetMap is a free, collaborative map of the world, created by users and accessible under an open license.

OpenStreetMap represents physical features on the ground (e.g., roads or buildings) using tags attached to its basic data structures (its nodes, ways, and relations). Each tag describes a …

The building tag is used to mark a given object as a building. In OpenStreetMap, a building is a man-made structure with a roof, standing more or less permanently in one place. The most …

This seems to imply an old "information silo" mentality, i.e. a user of OpenData would simply pass on a big chunk of OpenData either as a map or dataset in some product.

The script downloads the following ways: building building:part man_made=silo man_made=chimney man_made=communications_tower man_made=lighthouse …

This is the index of the items in the S-57 & S-101 Object catalogues and their OSM tag names. Each object has links to the page that describes the tagging of that particular object. An …

The man_made =* key now has over 50 documented values, some of which are not exactly buildings (adit, flagpole, snow_net, water_tap) and others which are (gasometer, observatory, …

Tag:man made=bunker silo Tag:man made=cairn Tag:man made=campanile Tag:man made=carpet hanger Tag:man made=cellar entrance Tag:man made=ceremonial gate …