Key:legal

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"No Wild Camping" signs on Malvern Common - geograph.org.uk - 1482410.jpg
Description
Legality of the feature. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: annotations
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Status: in use

The legal=* key is used in certain countries. Mostly, it indicates the legality of the element (i.e. Whether local law allows the existence of the element or not). For example, you may want to tag a waste landfill without a governmental register as legal=no. Another possible legal=no instance can be a factory on farmland, which may violate local land use law. You may need source=* to assist your changeset.

By overpass turbo, the legal=* tag is used in four countries most:

You may see some deprecated values other than legal=yes or legal=no in France. See the "In France" section for details.

In France

There were four values used in France:

These values referred to the legal administration status in France. However, the French community discourages those values, seeing them as incorrect or deprecated. Feel free to delete values other than legal=yes or legal=no.

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Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!
If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!
If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!