Key:board_type
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 board_type
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Specifies the details of an information=board 
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| Group: tourism |
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Status: de facto
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This was a key to specify the details of a board tagged as information=board and tourism=information. To add multiple types, separate the tag with a semicolon; e.g. board_type=nature;history.
Meanwhile it turned out that there are also other types of boards : board_type=company
Values
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| board_type | art | Information about some statue or other art nearby (see tourism=artwork). | 
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| board_type | astronomy | Astronomic information about planets, the solar system, etc. (See also board_type=planet_walk.) | 
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| board_type | No extra information, deprecated, please use more specific values. | ||
| board_type | geography | Geographic information, but not only a map and no geology (i.e., nothing about rocks or sediments) but about coordinates | 
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| board_type | geology | A board with information about geological circumstances (rocks, sediments). Often used at educational trails. | 
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| board_type | hazard | A board to indicate potential hazards e.g. fires (forest fire / wildfire risk), dangerous wildlife, landscapes. | 
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| board_type | history | A board with historical information about this place (commemorates nothing). |  |
| board_type | No extra information, deprecated, please use more specific values. | ||
| board_type | Consider to use tourism=information + information=map for tourism maps. | ||
| board_type | nature | A board with information about nature in this region. Often used at educational trails. |
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| board_type | notice | At (parish or community) notice boards you can find parish notices or adverts for local events happening soon. (See also advertising=board - small billboard for neighbourhood advertising.) |  |
| board_type | planet_walk | A special kind of astronomic signs (see "board_type=astronomy"). This signs are accompanying model of astronomical system, with astronomical objects (like planets) and distance between them being in scale. It is appearing mostly in countries like Germany, Austria and Switzerland. See the German Wikipedia article on that subject. |  |
| board_type | plants | A special board type of "nature", with information about plants (including trees) of this region. Often used at educational trails. | 
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| board_type | public_transport | A board with information about next departures or arrivals of public transport (bus, train, plane, ...) electric or non-electric. (See also departures_board=* - a board in an airport, train station, bus terminal or stop, etc displaying the information about future departures.) |  |
| board_type | rules | A board or sign with information on rules, guidelines and/or disclaimers. | 
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| board_type | sight | General information about a local sight, e.g. the city. This may be used if a more specific value is not applicable. | 
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| board_type | sport | Boards about route=fitness_trail or similar things. | 
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| board_type | technology | Technological explanation/information about some technological system there. If it is a historic system, consider to use "history" instead. | 
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| board_type | welcome_sign | A sign welcoming users to a place/city, without further (detailed) information about the place. (See also advertising=sign for signs that merely denote a place, without explicitly welcoming people to it.) | .jpg) |
| board_type | wildlife | A special board type of "nature", with information about animals (including birds or fishes) living in this region. Often used at educational trails. |
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| board_type | User defined | All commonly used values according to Taginfo | |
| board_type | No extra information, deprecated, please use more specific values |
Possible mistagging
See also
- tourism=information + information=map - A board with a map
- advertising=board - Small billboard for neighbourhood advertising
- information=tactile_map - A map that can be read with fingers
- historic=memorial + memorial=plaque - Specifies a memorial as a plaque
- Proposed features/information - initial proposal with more information about this tag and useful combinations