Key:landuse
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 landuse |
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| Description: For describing the primary use of areas of land. |
| Group: Landuse |
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Summary
Core values
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Rendering | Photo |
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| landuse | farm | 
| An area of farmland used for tillage and pasture (animals, crops, vegetables, flowers, fruit growing). |  | |
| landuse | farmyard |
| An area of land with farm buildings like farmhouse, dwellings, farmsteads, sheds, stables, barns, equipment sheds, feed bunkers, etc. plus the open space in between them and the shrubbery/trees around them. | ||
| landuse | quarry | 
| Surface mineral extraction (Other languages) | ||
| landuse | landfill |
| Place where waste is dumped upon. Other languages | ||
| landuse | basin |
| Other languages |  | |
| landuse | reservoir |
| Stores water, may covered or uncovered (Other languages) |  | |
| landuse | forest |
| Managed forest or woodland plantation (Other languages). See also natural=wood. |  | |
| landuse | allotments |
| A piece of land given over to local residents for growing vegetables and flowers (UK). |  | |
| landuse | residential |
| Predominantly houses or apartment buildings |  | |
| landuse | retail |
| Predominantly shops |  | |
| landuse | commercial |
| Predominantly offices |  | |
| landuse | industrial |
| Predominantly workshops, factories or warehouses |  | |
| landuse | brownfield |
| Describes land scheduled for new development where old buildings have been demolished and cleared |  | |
| landuse | greenfield |
| Describes land scheduled for new development where there have been no buildings before | ||
| landuse | railway |
| Area for railway use, generally off-limits to the general public | ||
| landuse | construction |
| "Under construction" site, should become something different once the construction is finished | ||
| landuse | military |
| For land areas owned/used by the military for whatever purpose | ||
| landuse | cemetery |
| Place for burials. You can add religion=* (values listed in the place of worship page). Smaller places (e.g. with a church nearby) may use amenity=grave_yard instead. |  |  |
| landuse | village_green |
| An area of common land, usually grass, in the centre of a village (quintessentially English - defined separately from 'common land' under the Commons Registration ACt 1965 and the Commons Act 2006) |  | |
| landuse | recreation_ground |
| An open green space for general recreation, which may include pitches, nets and so on, usually municipal but possibly also private to colleges or companies |  | |
| landuse | User Defined |
| See Tagwatch site for some other common used values as well |
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
