Tag:archaeological_site=earthwork

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Description
Historical artificial changes to the landscape, often in the form of ditches, mounds or hills.
Group: historic
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Requires
Useful combination
See also
Status: in usePage for proposal

A generic term for artificial changes to the level of the landscape, often in the form of ditches, mounds or hills. These should be historical in nature and are possibly better tagged with more specific values (e.g. archaeological_site=tumulus or archaeological_site=fortification) if known and appropriate.

How to map

Set a node node or draw as an area area along the outline and tag it with

Tags to use in combination

  • wikipedia=* - a link to Wikipedia's article about the feature
  • wikidata=* - an ID of the specific Wikidata item
  • historic:civilization=* (or more precise subtags) - the civilization (culture) that originally created the feature
  • tourism=attraction - if it is a tourist attraction.
  • heritage=* - if it is registered by an official heritage organisation.

Possible Tagging Mistakes

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
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