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landuse
Description
Mainly used for describing the primary use of areas of land.
Group:
landuse
Used on these
elements
Documented values:
84
Status:
de facto
landuse
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Contents
Usage
Values
2.1
Common landuse key values - developed land
2.2
Common landuse key values - rural and agricultural land
2.3
Common landuse key values - traffic and transportation
2.4
Common landuse key values - waterbody
2.5
Other landuse key values
Possible tagging mistakes
Usage
See also
Landuse
Mainly used to describe the primary use of land by humans.
For general information on mapping/classifying land areas see
Land use and areas of natural land
. See
Landcover
for general information on tagging the physical appearance of land and
Proposed features/landcover
for a proposal to more clearly separate the concepts.
More detailed landuse is often implied by other tags like
amenity
=*
leisure
=*
and
tourism
=*
, including
amenity
college
amenity
hospital
leisure
park
amenity
parking
leisure
pitch
amenity
school
leisure
swimming_pool
and
amenity
university
. In some cases these more detailed tags may be used for the primary landuse, in others they may provide supplementary information. For example a car park within a retail area or a shop within an apartment block.
Note that some
landuse
=*
values are used for small-scale landuse, such as
landuse
flowerbed
Note: At least two of the common values of
landuse
=*
may be viewed as not strictly land use. These are
landuse
grass
and
landuse
forest
. Please refer to the pages of these for more information.
Values
See below for commonly used values for landuse:
Key
Value
Element
Description
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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.
See also
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
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 - traffic and transportation
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
highway
Area of land used for a highway, including all auxiliary areas like associated footways, verges and ditches.
landuse
port
coastal industrial area where commercial traffic is handled. Consider using
landuse
industrial
industrial
port
for this type of industrial area.
landuse
railway
Area for railway use
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
reservoir
on Wikipedia. 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
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
quarry
Surface mineral extraction
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
Possible tagging mistakes
landuse
yes
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landuse
yes
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land
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land=*
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landuse
field
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landuse
field
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landuse
agriculture
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landuse
agriculture
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landuse
leisure
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landuse=leisure
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landuse
proposed
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landuse=proposed
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natural
basin
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natural=basin
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natural
grass
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natural
grass
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natural
meadow
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natural
meadow
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natural
orchard
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natural=orchard
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natural
farmland
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natural=farmland
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