Tag:building=detached
 building = detached
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A detached house: a free-standing residential building usually housing a single family. 
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A detached house is a free-standing residential building usually housing a single family.
Known as a single-family home in the United States, a single-detached dwelling in Canada, a separate house in New Zealand and Maison individuelle in France.
If the building shares walls with another building (forming half of a semi-detached pair) then it should be rather tagged building=semidetached_house. The outline of a row of terraced houses is tagged building=terrace, while the individual house in such a terrace is tagged building=house + optional house=terraced.
Distinction from building=house
A detached house is a subset of a house where it is not connected to other houses. Tagging a detached house with building=house is generally seen as acceptable because it is a more general term, so it is a valid tag. Depending on the location, a building=house may be detached from other surrounding buildings and may contain multiple residences within, whereas there may be more of an assumption of a single residence within a detached house.
Alternate tagging
Some mappers prefer to map this as building=house + house=detached. As of August 2023 about 1/3 of uses of house=detached are in Ireland. In other countries the tag is mostly rare.
Photos
Detached house in Argentina.
