Key:demolished:building
 demolished:building
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Recently demolished building. 
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This key is using the lifecycle prefix demolished:*=* for tagging buildings that have been demolished, sometimes without any traces left.
OSM is for features existing on the ground. This tag, however, is useful for preventing other mappers from inadvertently remapping demolished features that are still visible in some types of aerial/satellite imagery currently available in editors or other sources that can be used for mapping.
It must not be used for buildings gone and unlikely to be mapped by accident. Such objects should not be mapped and deleted if mapped. OpenStreetMap is mapping current state of the world, not its past.
Projects for mapping nonexisting buildings
For mapping buildings that were demolished a long time ago and for archiving demolished buildings, please see and use OpenHistoricalMap instead.
Possible tagging mistakes
See also
razed:building=*– Recently demolished building (completely removed)removed:building=*– Recently demolished building, temporarily kept to avoid remapping from aerial imagerydestroyed:building=*– Indicates that a building has been destroyed by a disastrous eventwas:building=*– Not what it used to beno:building=*–no:*=*Namespace for features that don't exist but have a high probability to be re-added by a non surveyed editformer:building=*– Not what it used to be (duplicate ofwas:building=*)