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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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| Accommodation | ||||||
| building | apartments | 
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A building arranged into individual dwellings, often on separate floors. May also have retail outlets on the ground floor. How does one map the retail elements? Use building:levels=* for the total number of floors. | 
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| building | dormitory |
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For a shared building, as used by college/university students (not a share room for multiple occupants as implied by the term in British English). Would 'hall_of_residence' be better? | |||
| building | hotel |
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A building designed with separate rooms available for overnight accommodation. Normally used in conjunction with tourism=hotel for the hotel grounds including recreation areas and parking. | 
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| building | house |
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A single dwelling unit inhabited by family or small group sharing facilities such as a kitchen. Houses forming half of semi-detached pair of one of a row of terraced houses should share at least two nodes with joined neighbours, thereby defining the party wall between the properties. | 
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| building | residential |
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A general tag for a building used primarily for residential purposes. Where additional detail is available consider using one or more areas tagged as 'apartments', 'terrace' or 'house'. | |||
| building | terrace |
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A single way used to define the outline of a linear row of residential dwellings, each of which normally has its own entrance, which form a terrace (row-house in North American English). Consider defining each dwelling separately using 'house'. | 
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| Commercial | ||||||
| building | commercial |
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A building where non-specific commercial activities take place; use office=* to describe the type of office. Consider tagging tha area using landuse=commercial. Use 'retail' if the building consists primarily of shops. | 
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| building | industrial |
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A building where some industrial process takes place. Use warehouse if the purpose is known to be primarily for storage/distribution. Consider using landuse=industrial for the surrounding area and the proposed industrial=* tag to describe the industrial activity. | |||
| building | retail |
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A building primarily used for selling goods are sold to the public; use shop=* to identify the sort of goods sold. Consider use landuse=retail for the surrounding area. How is one meant to indicate that there is also residential accommodation or office use above? | |||
| building | warehouse |
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A building primarily used for the storage or goods or as part of a distribution system. | |||
| Civic/amenity | ||||||
| building | cathedral |
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A building that was built as a cathedral. Used in conjunction with amenity=place_of_worship, religion=* and denomination=* for the cathedral grounds where it is in current use. | |||
| building | chapel |
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A building that was built as a chapel. Used in conjunction with amenity=place_of_worship, religion=* and denomination=* for the chapel grounds where it is in current use. | |||
| building | church |
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A building that was built as a church. Used in conjunction with amenity=place_of_worship, religion=* and denomination=* for the church grounds where it is in current use. | 
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| building | civic |
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For any civic amenity, for example community_centre, library, public toilets, sports_centre, swimming_pool, town-hall etc. Use amenity=* or leisure=* etc to provide further details. | |||
| building | hospital |
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A building which forms part of a hospital. Use amenity=hospital for the hospital grounds. | |||
| building | school |
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For any generic school buildings. Buildings for specific uses (sports halls etc) should be tagged for their purpose. Use amenity=school for the perimeter of the school grounds. | |||
| building | train_station |
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A train station building. Or is it building=station? | |||
| building | transportation |
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| building | university |
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A university building. Use amenity=university for the whole university area. | |||
| Other | ||||||
| building | bridge |
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A building used as a bridge. Can also represent a gatehouse for drawbridges. See also bridge=yes for highway=*. | |||
| building | bunker |
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A hardened military building. Also use military=bunker. | |||
| building | cabin |
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A cabin is a small, roughly built house usually with a wood exterior and typically found in rural areas. | |||
| building | farm_auxiliary |
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A building on a farm that is not a dwelling (use 'house' for the farm house). | |||
| building | garage |
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A garage is a building suitable for the storage of one or possibly more motor vehicle or similar. See building=garages for larger shared buildings. | |||
| building | garages |
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A building that consists of a number of discrete storage spaces for different owners/tenants. See also building=garage. | |||
| building | greenhouse |
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A greenhouse is a glass or plastic covered building used to grow plants. Use landuse=greenhouse_horticulture for the area | |||
| building | hangar |
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Consider using aeroway=hangar. | |||
| building | hut |
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A hut is a small and crude shelter. | |||
| building | roof |
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A structure that consists of a roof with open sides, such as a rain shelter, and also gas stations | |||
| building | shed |
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A shed is a simple, single-storey structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop. | |||
| building | yes |
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Use this value where it is not possible to determine a more specific value. | |||
| building | user defined |  
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All commonly used values according to Taginfo, generally building types | |||
| Additional attributes | ||||||
| building | entrance | 
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An entrance in a building. The newer tag entrance=* should be used instead. | |||
| height | number | 
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The height of the building in meters. | |||
| building:levels | number |
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The number of levels (floors) in the building. | |||
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
