Tag:building=stilt_house

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Description
A house raised on piles over the surface of the soil or a body of water. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Rendering in OSM Carto
Group: buildings
Used on these elements
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)
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= 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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