Tag:building=stilt_house

building = stilt_house
Description
Stilt houses are houses raised on piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water.
Rendering in OSM Carto
Group: Buildings
Used on these elements
See also
building=detached
Status: proposed
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Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or palafitte) are houses raised on piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water.

Alternative tagging

There are mappers who prefer to use conventional building=* tags, with a secondary key, stilts=yes to describe the same feature.

Usage comparison statistics

building=stilt_house	building=* + stilts=yes

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)
• See the Wikipedia page on this subject here.
• See the complementary tag stilts