Tag:building=house

building = house
Description
A single dwelling unit usually inhabited by one family.
Group: Buildings
Used on these elements
Useful combination
addr=*
See also
building=detached
Wikidata
Q3947
Status: de facto
Tools for this tag
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A single dwelling usually inhabited by a single household, such as a single family or small group of people sharing a kitchen and living space.

Houses forming half of a semi-detached pair, or one of a row of terraced houses, should share at least two nodes with joined neighbours.

More specific options

building=house is a fairly general tag so for some kinds of houses there are more specific tag options available

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See also

• Countries where houses usually share walls may find it useful to use the tag building=detached for a house that is free-standing (not sharing any walls with other house)
• For other residential accommodations, see building=residential and building=apartments.
• A row of terraced houses (i.e. houses which share two walls with adjacent houses) can initially be tagged as building=terrace, but it's preferable to then split them into individual houses. Make sure neighbouring houses share at least two nodes.

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• building=home

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• building=family_house

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• building=household

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