Tag:building=house

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Description
A single dwelling unit usually inhabited by one family. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Rendering in OSM Carto
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Group: buildings
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
See also
Status: de facto

This building tag is used for structures built for inhabitation by a single [W] household, such as a single family or small group of people sharing a kitchen and living space, but some may have a different current use or be empty. This tag is useful when it's difficult to determine a more specific building type. In most cases, alternatives are preferred.

Houses lined in a row, commonly referred to as terraced houses, rowhouses, or townhouses, are one of the few common uses of this tag and should include both the building=house and house=terraced tags.

More-specific alternatives

There are two ways to be more specific about the type of house, either house=* can be used or you can change the value of the building=* tag itself, as is shown below:

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See also

  • The tag building=detached is more common for houses that are free-standing (not sharing any walls with other house)
  • The tag building=semidetached_house is more common for houses sharing one wall with a neighboring household.
  • 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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