Tag:residential=detached

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residential = 
Description
A residential area with detached house buildings.
Group: landuse
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)
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Status: in use
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The residential= is a subtag of landuse=residential and appear to indicate that the buildings within a residential area is primarily of the building=detached type (or possibly, building=house + house=detached), without the assumption that it's a "single family" residence.

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residential=
residential=single_family
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