Key:landuse:secondary

Use the tag landuse:secondary=* in addition to landuse=* to add additional landuse values to an area. Areas where this applies are often but not limited found in urban areas.

Status

This tag was proposed but rejected. Nonetheless, there was some support hence this page is created to documented the usage.

Tagging

Draw an area and use landuse=* to indicate the main use of an area. Next, use landuse:secondary=* (or values like teriary for even more values) to indicate additional landuse. Additionally, all sub tags that can be applied to landuse can be used as normal like name=* or residential=* without namespacing.

The detail on which the landuse is mapped is up to the mapper. People can map landuse for a large area, per building block or per building (for example in a street with mixed landuse use and where the mapper wants to micromap the landuse). Note that for if example within a residential area (lets say covering a city (block) or neighbourhood) there are a few single/ small businesses, dual tagging the retail/commercial use should not be used. This is not in proportion and then retail and commercial can be added to a lot of landuse areas. It is then preferred to split up the area and map it in more detail.

When not to use this tag

Tagging additional landuse should not be used if a value already implies the presence of another landuse value by definition. For example landuse=farmyard by definition already includes a house. There is no need to draw an area of landuse=farmyard and use dual tagging to add landuse=residential for the house.

Examples

Find below an example.

Example of the use of both landuse=retail and residential. Note that optionally, you can cutout the landuse on the roads but that is up to the mapper. Image taken in JOSM