Key:fenced

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Description
Whether the outer perimeter of something is fenced. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: properties
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
See also
Status: in usePage for proposal

The fenced=* tag (value yes|no) indicates whether the outer perimeter of something is fenced.

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For fences as separate features, use barrier=fence instead.

So for general information on how to map fences and associated features please see barriers.

History

Once upon a time (before 2008) there were no barrier tags, because nobody had invented them yet. In that time the only way to map a fence in Openstreetmap was with fenced=yes. Between May 2016 and June 2023 fenced=* was deprecated on this page under the false assumption that fenced=yes and barrier=fence had the same meaning. Between Jan 2019 and June 2022 iD encouraged users to replace fenced=yes with barrier=fence. Therefore almost all fences mapped since the invention of barrier=fence are (re)mapped using that newer tag.

Rendering

This tag is not rendered by OpenStreetMap Carto; according to taginfo it seems to be rendered only by OpenTopoMap. Also it is rendered in Osmand.

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