Key:removed:building
| removed:building |
| Description |
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| Recently demolished building, temporarily kept to avoid remapping from aerial imagery. |
| Group: Lifecycle |
| Used on these elements |
| See also |
| Status: in use |
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Usage
This tag is using removed: lifecycle prefix. It is used for buildings that have been demolished, often without any traces left.
OSM is for features existing on the ground. This tag, however, is useful for preventing other mappers from inadvertently remapping demolished features that are still visible in aerial/satellite imagery currently available in OSM editors.
It must not be used for buildings gone and unlikely to mapped by accident. Such objects should be not mapped and deleted if mapped. OpenStreetMap is mapping current state of the world, not its past.
There is also more popular demolished:building=* instead of this key.
For cases where building is gone and ruins are remaining ruins:building=* is a better fit.
For cases where building is present but in ruins building=* ruins=yes is a better fit.
For cases where building is present but abandoned building=* abandoned=yes is a better fit.