Key:symbol

symbol
Description
Human-readable description of route symbols that are used as waymarkers or on guideposts. In the context of road markings also used to specify symbolic road markings.
Group: properties
Used on these elements
Useful combination
type=route route=hiking route=foot route=horse road_marking=symbol
See also
osmc:symbol=* wiki:symbol=* guidepost road_marking=*
Status: de facto
symbol=* More details at taginfo
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symbol=* is

• a human readable equivalent of osmc:symbol=*, both describe route symbols that are used as waymarkers or on guideposts.

See Walking Routes for country specific use of this tag.

• a tag to specify symbolic road markings road_marking=symbol.

For route symbols

Description

The symbol tag is used for describing symbols of hiking and other trails in a human readable form. It is usually accompanied with osmc:symbol=*, which contains a machine readable description of the symbol of the trail. Example:

• symbol=red bar on white ground
• osmc:symbol=red:white:red_bar →

You can use international naming options in this format:

• symbol=red bar ...
• symbol:hu=piros sáv ...

Implementing software may choose to use a local database for connecting osmc:symbol=* values to an icon or to a name, or it can choose to loud read the value of the symbol=* tag.

A routing software might say: "Turn left to the red bar and follow for two kilometers."

Examples

• Hungarian Hiking page
• WikiProject_Slovakia/Hiking_routes#Hiking_Routes_Marker_Symbols
• Symbols on guidepost:
  

For symbolic road markings

Use symbol=* to describe the style/form of symbolic road markings (road_marking=symbol). Use a generic term such as bicycle, pedestrian, hov (see hov=*) or airport (see also destination:symbol=*).

Examples

• 
  symbol=bicycle
• 
  symbol=wheelchair

See also

• osmc:symbol=* - Machine-Readable representation of route symbol that is used as waymarker or on guideposts.
• wiki:symbol=* - OpenStreetMap Wiki Symbol References of Hiking Path Symbols.
• information=guidepost - Used to mark a guidepost/signpost.
• destination:symbol=* - To indicate that a special symbol/icon is present on a signpost, visible as road marking or similar.
• road_marking=* - Mapping road markings.