I have plotted a couple of cairns that marks a path. But when adding them as points to the map, searching for 'cairn' (or 'varde') returns nothing. I suppose the cairn kind of point must be somewhere in the system? asked 11 Oct '14, 10:49  Styrheim |
One Answer:
According to tag info there are 2 natural=cairn, and couple of cairn=yes (see http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/cairn#values), the most popular is man_made=cairn (1517 times) and landmark=cairn (73). I would therefore go for man_made=cairn (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dcairn) answered 11 Oct '14, 11:08  escada edited 11 Oct '14, 11:13  SomeoneElse ♦ |
I recently needed to add a cairn to the map. Potlatch 2 offered me 'man_made=cairn' under Man-made:Navigation mark, which would seem to confirm escada's answer.
It might be useful to combine with one of information=route_marker or information=trail_blaze to show that it's a cairn marking a route rather than for some other purpose (summit, grave, random).