Key:damage:*

Prefix damage:*
Description
Specifies the details of an event that caused destruction.
Group: lifecycle
Used on these elements
Useful combination
destroyed:*=*
See also
demolished:*=* removed:*=* ruins:*=*
Status: in use
taginfo: damage:*

This page describes a key prefix rather than a simple key.

damage:* is a lifecycle prefix used to specify details of an event that caused destruction. It can help to give information to other mappers or filter objects later for quality assurance.

Key variants

damage:event

Uniform name of the event

• damage:event=* – The event that caused the destruction (e.g.damage:event=2016EcuadorEarthquake or damage:event=#flood0721).
• damage:event=war - damage:type=explosion

damage:event:wikidata

Wikidata ID for the event, e.g. damage:event:wikidata=Q23835355 for the 2016 Ecuador earthquake.

damage:type

damage:type=* – The type of the event that caused the destruction. Possible values:

• flood
• fire
• earthquake
• eruption - volcanic eruptions
• landslide
• sinkhole - use natural=sinkhole
• typhoon
• tornado
• avalanche
• building_collapse - collapsed:building
• damage:type=explosion - natural gas, Ammonium, fuel, ammunition, bomb

damage:date

• damage:date=* – The date on which the feature was destructed in format yyyy-mm-dd (e.g. 2016-04-16).

Statistics by taginfo

damage:event	damage:type	damage:date

See also

• destroyed:*=* – not existing anymore because of an event other than intentional demolition destroyed:highway destroyed:railway destroyed:bridge destroyed:waterway destroyed:aeroway destroyed:power destroyed:water
• demolished:*=* – not existing anymore because of active removal
• removed:*=* – not existing anymore because of active removal (possible duplicate of demolished=*)
• ruins:*=* – only ruins are remaining (this tag is probably used for ruins due to a decay or when the event is not known)