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+/- landuse Description For describing the primary use of areas of land. Group Landuse Element help Tools for this tag Combinations worldwide in Australia/Oceania in Europe (list) in Asia (list) in Central America (list) in South America (list) in Africa (list)  (via overpass turbo - help)

Usage

See also Landuse

Mainly used for describe the primary use of land by humans. For general information on mapping/classifying land areas see Land use and areas of natural land. See Landcover for general information on tagging the physical appearance of land and Proposed features/landcover for a proposal to more clearly separate the concepts.

More detailed tagging for land uses is available in amenity=*, leisure=* and tourism=*, including amenity=college, amenity=hospital, leisure=park, amenity=parking, leisure=pitch, amenity=school, amenity=swimming_pool and amenity=university. In some cases these more detailed tags may be used for the primary landuse, in others they may provide supplementary information. For example a school within a residential area or a car park within a retail area.

Values

See below for commonly used values for landuse:

Key	Value	Element	Comment	Rendering	Photo
landuse	allotments		A piece of land given over to local residents for growing vegetables and flowers.
landuse	basin		An area of water that drains into a river. Together with basin=* for stormwater/rainwater infiltration/detention/retention basins. Other languages.
landuse	brownfield		Describes land scheduled for new development where old buildings have been demolished and cleared
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	commercial		Predominantly offices, business parks, etc.
landuse	conservation		Protected areas (Not approved) Alternate tagging of same thing: Tag:boundary=protected_area, Key:protected_area
landuse	construction		"Under construction" site, should become something different once the construction is finished
landuse	farm		An area of farmland used for tillage and pasture (animals, crops, vegetables, flowers, fruit growing).
landuse	farmland		Synonyme for farm, used in JOSM because farm was considered ambiguous. Farmland has been used more often as of 2013-02-21 (610 472 tags vs 453 935). See ticket #1579.
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	forest		Managed forest or woodland plantation (Other languages).
landuse	garages		One level buildings with boxes commonly for cars, usually made of brick and metal. Usualy this area belong to garage cooperative with own name, chairman, budget, rules, security, etc.
landuse	grass		For areas covered with grass. Consider landuse=meadow for pasture. Note that this is actually a Landcover tag, not a landuse tag and there is a proposal to deprecate it.
landuse	greenfield		Describes land scheduled for new development where there have been no buildings before. A greenfield is scheduled to turn into a construction site
landuse	greenhouse_horticulture		Area used for growing plants in greenhouses
landuse	industrial		Predominantly workshops, factories or warehouses
landuse	landfill		Place where waste is dumped. Other languages
landuse	meadow		An area of land primarily vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants (Other Languages).
landuse	military		For land areas owned/used by the military for whatever purpose
landuse	orchard		intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production
landuse	plant_nursery		intentional planting of plants maintaining for the production of new plants
landuse	quarry		Surface mineral extraction (Other languages)
landuse	railway		Area for railway use, generally off-limits to the general public
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	reservoir		Stores water, may be covered or uncovered; for a covered reservoir see also man_made=reservoir_covered (Other languages). See water=reservoir for alternative tagging.
landuse	residential		Predominantly houses or apartment buildings
landuse	retail		Predominantly shops
landuse	salt_pond		A place where sea water is evaporated to extract its salt
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	vineyard		A piece of land where grapes are grown.
landuse	user defined		All commonly used values according to Taginfo

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