Tag:house=detached

house = 
Description
A detached house is a freestanding residential building usually housing a single family. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: buildings
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may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
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Status: in use
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A detached house is a freestanding residential building usually housing a single family.

Known as a single-family home in the United States, a single-detached dwelling in Canada, a separate house in New Zealand and Maison individuelle in France.

If the building shares a wall with another building, then it should either be tagged with house=semi-detached or house=terraced.

Alternate tagging

Many mappers prefer to map this with the tag building=detached.

As of December 2020, over 80% of uses of house= are in Ireland. In most countries, it is much more common to use building=detached.

See this OSM tag history as a curve chart which shows the development of the usage numbers of the different tags in comparison.

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