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Water Mill (AJ055)

DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.

RDF: aj055.ttl

Name

WaterMill

Kind

FeatureType

Definition

A structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process (for example: grinding grain into flour, cutting timber into lumber, or stripping bark from trees for use in tanning).

Description

A water mill that only generates electricity is more usually termed a 'hydroelectric plant'.

Accepted

2013-10-18

Geometry

point, multipoint, curve, multicurve, surface, multisurface, solid, multisolid

Subtype of

AL013 Building

RWOI terms naming it

• RWO_01518 Gristmill

Mappings

• osm#man_made=watermill-point: AJ055 closeMatch man_made=watermill (point)
• osm#man_made=watermill-polygon: AJ055 closeMatch man_made=watermill (polygon)

Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.

OSM mappings: OSM_to_DGIF_V3.csv of che-dgif-interlis-tools. Licence: MIT, © 2026 Michael Lanini (swisstopo). See the FAQ.