Key:map_type

Description
Specifies the type of a map. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: tourism
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Requires
Status: de facto
More details at taginfo
Tools for this tag
=* What type of map is it?
key=value Description Example/photo
=topo A map with topographical background for e.g. a historical or hiking map. The map contains contour lines.
=street A map with all streets or ways of an area. The streets are mostly named. The angles, distances etc. are accurate. Used e.g. at tourist offices for the accommodation overview.
=scheme A sketched map with only important ways and POIs. The angles, distances etc. are merely illustrative, not accurate. Used e.g. by travel agencies to explain their tours.
=toposcope A marker erected on high places which indicates the direction to notable landscape features which can be seen from that point (associated with tourism=viewpoint).
=* All commonly used values according to Taginfo
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