Tag:place=plot

place =

Description

A named plot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner.

Group: places

Used on these elements

Useful combination

name=*

Definition

Use the tag place= to identify a named plot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner.

place= is a subdivision at a level lower than place=neighbourhood or place=city_block.

place= 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= 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 :

Example 1
Example 2

Possible synonyms

More details at taginfo

building=plot ‒ Found in geographically and source-wise limited use in the Middle East including Afghanistan.

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