Template:Map Features:landuse

Landuse

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

Key	Value	Element	Description	Rendering	Photo
Common landuse key values - developed land
landuse	commercial		Predominantly commercial businesses and their offices. Commercial businesses which sell goods should be categorised as landuse=retail. Commercial 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 Counselor's or Physiotherapist's practice or Veterinary. 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	education		An area predominately used for educational purposes/facilities.
landuse	fairground		A site where a fair takes place
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. Land use and areas of natural land#Open questions and 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 commercial, but should be used and treated as mutually exclusive in OpenStreetMap.
landuse	institutional		Land used for institutional purposes, see Institution (disambiguation). Institutional land may contain one or more buildings like an office=government, office=ngo, office=association, amenity=social_facility and their associated infrastructure (car parks, service roads, yards and so-on) inside the area. The meaning of this tag is ambiguous and unclear by some. Consider using another tag that better describes the object. For instance landuse=civic_admin.
Key	Value	Element	Description	Rendering	Photo
Common landuse key values - rural and agricultural land
landuse	aquaculture		Aquaculture is the farming of freshwater and saltwater organisms such as finfish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Warning: currently, there is no convention on the exact meaning of this tag. Therefore, it makes sense to treat it like "boundary of aquaculture" (without implication of water body), which means, water body should be tagged by its own, using natural=water etc.
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	paddy		An area of land where the surface and shape of the land is made suitable for growing rice.
landuse	animal_keeping		An area of land that is used to keep animals, particularly horses and livestock.
landuse	flowerbed		An area designated for flowers
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	logging		An area where some or all trees have been cut down
landuse	greenhouse_horticulture		Area used for growing plants in greenhouses
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	plant_nursery		intentional planting of plants maintaining for the production of new plants
landuse	vineyard		A piece of land where grapes are grown.
Key	Value	Element	Description	Rendering	Photo
Common landuse key values - waterbody
landuse	basin		An area artificially graded to hold water. Together with basin=* for stormwater/rainwater infiltration/detention/retention basins. Other languages.
landuse	reservoir		A reservoir. Deprecated variant of natural=water + water=reservoir. See Proposed features/Reservoir for details.
landuse	salt_pond		A place where salt (saline) water is evaporated to extract its salt.
Key	Value	Element	Description	Rendering	Photo
Other landuse key values
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 (deprecated) 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.
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 not otherwise covered by a more specific tag. Some view this as not a landuse, see the main page landuse=grass for discussion.
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	landfill		Place where waste is dumped.
landuse	military		For land areas owned/used by the military for whatever purpose
landuse	port		coastal industrial area where commercial traffic is handled. Consider using landuse=industrial + industrial=port for this type of industrial area.
landuse	quarry		Surface mineral extraction
landuse	railway		Area for railway use
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		An area used for religious purposes
landuse	village_green		A village green is a distinctive area of grassy public land in a village centre. Not a generic tag for urban greenery. It is a typical English term – defined separately from 'common land' under the Commons Registration Act 1965 and the Commons Act 2006.
landuse	greenery		Used for any area covered with landscaping or decorative greenery, regardless of it being on a roundabout, along a street or in a park/garden, This tag has been used for vegetation that is hard to classify, either because its kind or because its diversity.
landuse	winter_sports		An area dedicated to winter sports (e.g. skiing)
landuse	user defined		All commonly used values according to Taginfo

This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.

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Usage

Display a table of landuse (in the Map Features page).

Notes

Use the default English text or use the template arguments for your translations.

Syntax

Template for copy/paste :

<noinclude>{{languages}}</noinclude>
{{Map_Features:landuse
|name=
|description=
|head:key=
|head:value=
|head:element=
|head:desc=
|head:render=
|head:photo=

|allotments:desc=
|basin:desc=
|brownfield:desc=
|cemetery:desc=
|commercial:desc=
|construction:desc=
|farm:desc=
|farmland:desc=
|farmyard:desc=
|forest:desc=
|garages:desc=
|grass:desc=
|greenfield:desc=
|greenhouse_horticulture:desc=
|industrial:desc=
|landfill:desc=
|meadow:desc=
|military:desc=
|orchard:desc=
|plant_nursery:desc=
|peat_cutting:desc=
|port:desc=
|quarry:desc=
|railway:desc=
|recreation_ground:desc=
|reservoir:desc=
|residential:desc=
|retail:desc=
|salt_pond:desc=
|village_green:desc=
|vineyard:desc=

|Proposed_features:desc=
}}

Parameters

• 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.

== section header ==
|name=        (section header line)
|description= (displayed before and/or after the table; optional)
== One key/value row ==
|landuse:key=   |farm:value=   |farm:desc=   |farm:render=   |farm:photo=

Example

• {{Map Features:landuse}}

See also

• {{Languages}}
• Map features

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