Key:building
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To mark the outline of a building.
Man made
Used combinations in
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Usage
- See Buildings
The building key is used to mark areas as a building. For further details of how buildings are tagged and rendered: Buildings
Values
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Photo |
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| building | yes | 
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Use this value if you prefer building:type=* or if you don't want to or are unable to specify a building type. | |
| building | apartments |
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Big house with apartments/flats. Sometimes there are shops at the ground floor. | 
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| building | bunker |
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Military building, made to resist heavy fire. Complete with military=bunker. | |
| building | church |
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A building that was built as a church. This should be completed with amenity=place_of_worship, religion=* and denomination=* unless it is no longer used for that purpose. | 
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| building | collapsed |
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A collapsed or destroyed building. See also historic=ruins and ruins=*. | |
| building | commercial |
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A building where commercial activities take place. Probably used with shop=*. | |
| building | detached |
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Single-family detached home, similar to building=house | |
| building | farm |
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A house on a farm, use building=warehouse if it's for storing goods. | |
| building | garage |
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For a structure with a single space suitable for storing a motor vehicle or similar. Use building=garages for structure containing a number of discrete storage storage spaces, often with different access and owners/tenants. | |
| building | garages |
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For a structure containing a number of discrete storage storage spaces, each with different users. Use building=garage for a structure suitable for storing a motor vehicle or similar for a single owner. | |
| building | greenhouse |
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A greenhouse used to grow plants. Use landuse=greenhouse_horticulture for the area where the greenhouses are (including water basins) | |
| building | hangar |
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Used for storing goods. Ambiguous? Use building=warehouse instead. | |
| building | hotel |
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A building in hotel typology | |
| building | house |
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A generic tag for a house where a family lives, if you do not want to specify more precise values like detached or terrace | 
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| building | hut |
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A small primitive building. | |
| building | industrial |
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Use landuse=industrial for the area. Collision with building=manufacture? | |
| building | manufacture |
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Factory. See also man_made=works | |
| building | office |
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An office. The tags building=Office and building=offices are also used. Complete with office=* | |
| building | panel house |
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panel building constructed of pre-fabricated, pre-stressed concrete. See: [1] | |
| building | public |
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A where you may enter almost publicly like a townhall. | |
| building | residential |
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A generic tag for residential buildings, if you do not want to specify more precise values like house, apartments, terrace or hut | |
| building | retail |
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Complete with shop=* | |
| building | roof |
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for roofs open at the sides, e.g. gas stations, open shelters, … | |
| building | school |
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School buildings. Completed with the tag amenity=school | |
| building | service |
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| building | storage_tank |
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Used for storing fluids. See man_made=storage_tank and man_made=silo instead. | |
| building | supermarket |
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Implemented by Mapnik. Complete with shop=mall. | |
| building | terrace |
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Abbr. for terraced house. Row of linked residential houses, see also building=house | 
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| building | train_station |
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A train station building. (Ambiguous: Mapnik renders building=station specifically) | |
| building | transportation |
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| building | university |
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A university building. Completed with the tag amenity=university. | |
| building | user defined |  
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All commonly used values according to Taginfo | |
| Additional attributes | ||||
| building | entrance | 
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An entrance in a building, useful for routing and in conjunction with addr:*. Make this node part of the building's area (if it exists), not a separate node. | |
| height | number | 
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The height of the building in meters. | |
| building:levels | number |
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Proposed tag for the number of levels (floors) in a building. | |
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