Tag:building=office
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A building which contains spaces mainly designed to be used for offices. ![]() |
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Group: buildings |
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building=office
is used to tag an office building constructed to house offices. A typical office building has one or more office=*
objects inside and is frequently located within a commercial area landuse=commercial
.

building=office
[1]Note that additional tags may be useful in some situations - for example amenity=townhall
, or amenity=courthouse
).
Note that some offices (marked with office=*
) may also be located in buildings of other types. For example, a former church building repurposed as an office will be still tagged as building=church
, possibly with building:use=*
on it.
Similar tags
building=commercial
- A commercial building that may include not only offices but also broad range of other building types - ranging from self-storage warehouses through cinemas to hotels and buildings intended as restaurants. For office buildingsbuilding=office
is preferable overbuilding=commercial
.building=retail
- A building that primarily houses shops.