Tag:waterway=waterfall

waterway = waterfall
Description
A place where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of drops in the course of a stream or river. Edit or translate this description.
Rendering in OSM Carto
Group: Waterways
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations
Useful combination
Status: de facto
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A  waterfall, or a cascade. A place where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of drops in the course of a stream or river.

How to map

Draw a node node on a river or stream and add waterway=waterfall.

Note that some mappers have used waterway=waterfall on a way way to represent the edge over which the water flows (across the flow) while others have used the tag to represent the vertical extent of the cascade (along the flow). Therefore, the semantics of usage on a way are unclear.

Tags to use in combination

See also

Possible tagging mistakes

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