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Common landuse key values - developed land

landuse commercial node area 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 node area 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 node area An area predominately used for educational purposes/facilities.
landuse fairground node area A site where a fair takes place
landuse industrial node area Predominantly industrial landuses such as workshops, factories, or warehouses.
landuse residential node area 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.
landuse retail node area 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 node area 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

.

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Common landuse key values - rural and agricultural land

landuse aquaculture node area 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 node area A piece of land given over to local residents for growing vegetables and flowers.
landuse farmland area An area of farmland used for tillage (cereals, vegetables, oil plants, flowers).
landuse farmyard area 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 area An area of land that is used to keep animals, particularly horses and livestock.
landuse flowerbed area An area designated for flowers
landuse forest node area 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 area An area where some or all trees have been cut down
landuse greenhouse_horticulture area Area used for growing plants in greenhouses
landuse meadow node area A meadow or pasture: land primarily vegetated by grass and non-woody plants, mainly used for hay or grazing
landuse orchard node area intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production
landuse plant_nursery area intentional planting of plants maintaining for the production of new plants
landuse vineyard node area A piece of land where grapes are grown.
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Common landuse key values - traffic and transportation

landuse depot area 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 area 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 Area of land used for a highway, including all auxiliary areas like associated footways, verges and ditches.
landuse port area coastal industrial area where commercial traffic is handled. Consider using landuse=industrial + industrial=port for this type of industrial area.
landuse railway area Area for railway use
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Common landuse key values - waterbody

landuse basin node area An area artificially graded to hold water.

Together with basin=* for stormwater/rainwater infiltration/detention/retention basins.

Other languages.

landuse reservoir node area A reservoir on Wikipedia. Deprecated variant of natural=water + water=reservoir. See Proposed features/Reservoir for details.
landuse salt_pond area A place where salt (saline) water is evaporated to extract its salt.
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Other landuse key values

landuse brownfield node area Describes land scheduled for new development where old buildings have been demolished and cleared
landuse cemetery node area 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 area Protected areas (deprecated) Alternate tagging of same thing: boundary=protected_area, protected_area=* landuse grass node area 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 node area 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 node area Place where waste is dumped.
landuse military node area For land areas owned/used by the military for whatever purpose
landuse quarry node area Surface mineral extraction
landuse recreation_ground node area 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 node area An area used for religious purposes
landuse village_green node area 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 area 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 node area An area dedicated to winter sports (e.g. skiing)
landuse user defined node area All commonly used values according to Taginfo