Silos. Map ‘em. As many as you can. Lovely round, tall silos. Almost never singular. Search for them in farmyards, along railroads. Bonus points for mapping the elevator, truck scales, other assorted buildings and even adding operator.
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Silos. Map ‘em. As many as you can. Lovely round, tall silos. Almost never singular. Search for them in farmyards, along railroads. Bonus points for mapping the elevator, truck scales, other assorted buildings and even adding operator.
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Comment from watmildon on 9 May 2026 at 17:22
ooo I do like a good silo. Do you have a few locations that have the other non-silo features mapped well so I can get a better sense of those?
Comment from Skunkman56 on 18 May 2026 at 16:47
Thanks for the comment. I wish I knew a good example of a grain elevator complex that’s already well-mapped. I don’t always pay close attention to well-mapped areas. Again, with the nature of most OSM contributors, agricultural infrastructure doesn’t get much attention. I would thought the railfans might have gotten into the mix as many larger elevator complexes are associated with rail terminal facilities
Here’s an ethanol plant where the grain silos are inappropriately mapped as “storage tanks”: osm.org/#map=17/42.593713/-89.668636 and another where the silos aren’t mapped at all, however the rail yard is exquisite: osm.org/#map=17/43.281652/-84.569874