Tag:landuse=residential
 landuse = residential
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A portion of land predominantly used for residential purposes. 
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An area of land having predominantly residential buildings such as houses or apartment buildings.
Generalized landuse
The extent of the area should mark the boundary of known residential use. It can be crude at first but should not match the extent of the whole town or village. If there is a small (one company/property) area of commercial (or similar) landuse within an otherwise residential area, you can still decide to use landuse=residential for the outline of the whole larger area as a preliminary solution. You could later draw a separate area tagged with landuse=commercial for that commercial establishment.
If the change in landuse is significant, then it makes sense to map it. Significance can either come from size - if there is a whole shopping mall in a residential area, one would probably map this separately - but even something small can be relevant. This is the mapper's decision. If you want to make a hole for another landuse inside a residential area, you can use a multipolygon relation.
In general, leave the area unnamed, since it only represents the statistical likelihood of finding residences there. If the area is known by a name, map a separate place=* object to represent the concept of place in the same area as the residences:
place=neighbourhood- A smaller, named, populated area (applicable in most cases)place=quarter- Larger than a neighborhood in an urban area, smaller than asuburbplace=hamlet- For small named places in rural areasplace=city_block- For named city blocks, normally in Europe.
Residential developments
This tag can also represent a planned residential development with a well-known identity and well-defined boundary, such as a subdivision,[1] apartment complex, trailer park, or the like. Such developments are especially common in some regions, in areas built from the 20th century onward.
Some useful property tags:
name=*– the development's name as signpostedbuilder=*– the company name of the homebuilder, if knownoperator=*– the homeowner association or other organization responsible for maintaining the development after constructionwebsite=*– the development's website, which may be operated by either the homebuilder or homeowner association
Indicate the predominant form of housing by setting residential=single_family, apartments, trailer_park, etc. See the residential=* value's respective page for details within the residential development, such as how to tag the individual buildings.
When not to use
landuse=farmland - even if local government zoned it for residential construction and construction is planned in futureThis tag should only be used for areas dedicated to and actually used for residential purposes. It should not be used
- for areas with buildings of unknown use
- as an abstract wrapper around buildings grouping them without a difference between residential landuse within and other landuses around being observable
- as additional tag for urban administrative units
- for areas zoned as residential by local development plans, and not yet used as residential area
Separation from roads
It is acceptable to map landuse to stop at the boundary of roads, and it is also acceptable for landuse to overlap road area on roads where the right of way is not significant enough to warrant a break in the landuse area.
It is strongly discouraged to glue landuse to road lines. Glued landuse makes the data much harder to work with. It is better to have the landuse boundary stop at the edge of the road, the edge of right of way, or overlap the road completely if the same landuse continues on the other side.
Related tags
place=neighbourhoodresidential=university(proposed tag)residential=halting_sitefor nomad people and travellers (notably in France)
Possible tagging mistakes
See also
- Residential area on Wikipedia
Notes
- ↑ In some regions, a subdivision is often derived from one or more legal subdivisions, but we map the subdivision as it is presented to the public, not the legal subdivisions which are much more obscure.