Template:Map Features:landuse

This is used to describe the purpose for which an area of land is being used. This template is use on the page Landuse. See this page for an introduction on its usage.

Common Landuse Key Values - Developed land

Key	Value	Element	Description	Rendering	Photo
landuse	commercial		Predominantly commerical businesses and their offices. Commercial businesses which sell goods should be catergorised as landuse=retail. Commerical businesses can sell services on site and may include private Doctor's Surgeries, and those non-government services for mental and physical health, such as a Counsellor's or Physiotherapist's practice or Veterinary. Government services and businesses should not use this tag. Commercial businesses can also include office buildings and business parks which have limited interface with the public and sell their services either on site, or externally. Commercial businesses have low amounts of public foot traffic.
landuse	construction		A site which is under active development and construction of a building or structure, including any purposeful alteration to the land or vegetation upon it. Abandoned construction projects and sites should not use this tag.
landuse	industrial		Predominantly industrial landuses such as workshops, factories, or warehouses.
landuse	residential		Land where people reside; predominantly residential detached (single houses, grouped dwellings), or attached (apartments, flats, units) dwellings. For "Mixed-Use" areas where more than half of the land is residential, tag as residential. See also: Land use and areas of natural land § Open questions
landuse	retail		Predominantly retail businesses such as shops. Retail businesses sell physical goods such as food (prepared or grocery), clothing, medicine, stationary, appliances, tools, or other similar physical items. Retail businesses have high amounts of public foot traffic. Retail businesses do not exclusively provide or sell their services. For businesses which sell services see landuse=commercial. Generally a member of the public could freely walk into and access a retail business. Retail is a subset of commerical, but should be used and treated as mutually exclusive in OpenStreetMap.

Common Landuse Key Values - Rural and agricultural land

Key	Value	Element	Description	Rendering	Photo
landuse	allotments		A piece of land given over to local residents for growing vegetables and flowers.
landuse	farmland		An area of farmland used for tillage (cereals, vegetables, oil plants, flowers).
landuse	farmyard		An area of land with farm buildings like farmhouse, dwellings, farmsteads, sheds, stables, barns, equipment sheds, feed bunkers, etc. plus the open space in between them and the shrubbery/trees around them.
landuse	forest		Managed forest or woodland plantation (Other languages). Some use this to map an area of trees rather than the use of the land. See Forest.
landuse	meadow		A meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and non-woody plants, mainly used for hay or grazing
landuse	orchard		intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production
landuse	vineyard		A piece of land where grapes are grown.

Other Landuse Key Values

Key	Value	Element	Description	Rendering	Photo
landuse	basin		An area artificially graded to hold water. Together with basin=* for stormwater/rainwater infiltration/detention/retention basins. Other languages.
landuse	brownfield		Describes land scheduled for new development where old buildings have been demolished and cleared
landuse	cemetery		Place for burials. You can add religion=* (values listed in the place of worship page). Smaller places (e.g. with a church nearby) may use amenity=grave_yard instead.
landuse	conservation		Protected areas (Not approved) Alternate tagging of same thing: boundary=protected_area, protected_area=*
landuse	depot		An area used as a depot for e.g. vehicles (trains, buses or trams). Consider using rather standard landuse tags like landuse=railway, landuse=commercial, landuse=industrial, with subtag like industrial=depot.	currently not rendered by osm-carto
landuse	garages		One level buildings with boxes commonly for cars, usually made of brick and metal. Usually this area belong to garage cooperative with own name, chairman, budget, rules, security, etc.
landuse	grass		An area of mown and managed grass. Some view this as not a landuse, see the main page landuse=grass for information.
landuse	greenfield		Describes land scheduled for new development where there have been no buildings before. A greenfield is scheduled to turn into a construction site
landuse	greenhouse_horticulture		Area used for growing plants in greenhouses
landuse	landfill		Place where waste is dumped.
landuse	military		For land areas owned/used by the military for whatever purpose
landuse	peat_cutting		An excavation created by the removal of peat. Use landuse=quarry + resource=peat instead	currently not rendered by osm-carto
landuse	plant_nursery		intentional planting of plants maintaining for the production of new plants
landuse	port		coastal industrial area where commercial traffic is handled. Consider using landuse=industrial + industrial=port for this type of industrial area.	currently not rendered by osm-carto
landuse	quarry		Surface mineral extraction
landuse	railway		Area for railway use, generally off-limits to the general public
landuse	recreation_ground		An open green space for general recreation, which may include pitches, nets and so on, usually municipal but possibly also private to colleges or companies
landuse	religious		Religious territory
landuse	reservoir		There was considerable confusion whether landuse=reservoir is deprecated, but it turned out to be not deprecated and landuse=reservoir is used much wider than "new" way natural=water + water=reservoir. It may be a good idea to tag the actual water body with natural=water + water=reservoir in addition or instead of landuse=reservoir. See also the approved water details proposal and pointers to discussion on talk page.
landuse	salt_pond		A place where sea water is evaporated to extract its salt	currently not rendered by osm-carto
landuse	village_green		An area of common land, usually grass, in the centre of a village (quintessentially English – defined separately from 'common land' under the Commons Registration Act 1965 and the Commons Act 2006). This tag is more used to tag all sorts of mixed vegetation, mostly in urban areas. Hence the above definition probably needs to be adjusted to fit the real use of it.
landuse	user defined		All commonly used values according to Taginfo

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Template for the Landuse table in the Map Features page. Use the default English text or use the template arguments for your translations

Usage

All parameters are optional. By default, text is in English. English writers shall write their comments in the template itself (avoiding double edition). Other languages are translated in template arguments, not in the template itself.

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