Tag:place=plot
| place = plot |
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| A named plot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner. |
| Group: Places |
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| Status: in use |
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Definition
Use the tag place=plot to identify a named plot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner.
place=plot is a subdivision at a level lower than place=neighbourhood or place=city_block.
place=plot is presently the lowest level of urban division in the place=* hierarchy.
According to Wikipedia's land lot, a plot is also known as a lot.
As any other OpenStreetMap object, a plot's boundaries are recorded by visual observation on the ground - so they do not necessarily match cadastral records, although Openstreetmap's plot does have some degree of kinship with its more administrative cousin, the cadastral plot.
Usage
place=plot is preferably used to tag an area.
Use name=* to record the plot's common name.
A plot's boundary is often materialized by a barrier=* such as barrier=wall or barrier=fence
Examples in Openstreetmap
Examples in the wild
West Africa
These images from Senegal show how each block is subdivided into land plots - each with a courtyard and several buildings that usually all belong to an extended family, often surrounded by a barrier=wall :
Possible synonyms
See also
- Land_lot on Wikipedia.
- place=neighbourhood
- place=city_block
- place=town
- place=city