Tag:building=stilt house

building = stilt_house
Description
Stilt houses are houses raised on piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water.  
Rendering in OSM Carto
Group: Buildings
Used on these elements
See also
Status: proposed
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Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or palafitte) are houses raised on piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water.

Alternative tagging

There are mappers who prefer to use conventional building=* tags, with a secondary key, stilts=yes to describe the same feature.

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building=stilt_house building=* + stilts=yes

See also

  • Countries where houses usually share walls may find it useful to use the tag building=detached for a house that is free-standing (not sharing any walls with other house)
  • See the Wikipedia page on this subject here.
  • See the complementary tag stilts
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