Key:abandoned:building

abandoned:building
Description
A building which has been abandoned and is no longer functional due to serious damage to roof or walls, but which is still visible in the landscape.
Group: lifecycle
Used on these elements
See also
building abandoned=yes disused:*=* abandoned:*=*
Status: in use
abandoned:building=* More details at taginfo
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The abandoned:building=* is used to map a building which has fallen into serious disrepair and is not habitable or usable, and which could only be put back into safe operation with expensive effort, such as completely rebuilding the roof or walls. Such buildings will still have some physical form reflective of their former use visible in the landscape, but may be missing parts of the roof or wall and therefore cannot be inhabited.

For buildings which are disused, but could still be usable with minor repairs, see the key disused=yes instead. Buildings which have been reduced to ruins should be tagged as ruins instead, by using ruins:building=* or ruins=yes.

How to map

Add abandoned:building=* to the abandoned building instead of building=* with an appropriate value (e.g., house, barn, or bunker). Typically the value will be the same one as you would have used with building=* had the building not been in a dire state of disrepair. For an abandoned building which is partially or significantly ruined where the specific type of building is no longer possible to determine, or not known, you may use a node when the shape of the abandoned former building is not clear.

Alternative tagging and concerns

Some mappers feel that a building, abandoned or not, should still be mapped with building=*, and the way to mark that it is abandoned is by adding abandoned=yes.

There is some overlap between disused:*=*, abandoned:*=* and ruins:*=*. There seem to be no clear consensus yet. See Talk page for more information.

Rendering

Some renderers (like OsmAnd or Jawg) will show abandoned buildings in a special style (dashed lines), whilst others won't render them at all.

Gallery

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  abandoned:building=* (in serious disrepair)
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  abandoned:building=* (in serious disrepair)
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  abandoned:building=* (in serious disrepair)
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  abandoned:building=* (in serious disrepair)

Related alternatives

• 
  building=* + disused=yes (although some mappers might see it as building=* + abandoned=yes)
• 
  building=ruins (sometimes tagged as ruins:building=* instead)
• 
  building=ruins (sham ruins; i.e. structure constructed to look like a ruin)
• 
  ruins:building=yes (as it is no longer a building by any means, do not use building=*)
• 
  removed:building=yes, to prevent armchair mappers to re-adding the building from most recent aerial imagery where it is still visible. (otherwise, do not map at all)

See also

• building=ruins
• building=construction
• demolished:building=*
• disused:building=*
• Lifecycle prefix
• Comparison of life cycle concepts
• disused=yes + building=* for a building which is not currently used
• building=*
• abandoned=*
• shop=vacant